Cock Boys

For my ink line drawings I saw an eagle that I really liked in Pinterest and began pinning some interesting birds.  When I saw the roosters, I had the idea that it would  be funny to emphasize their manliness as they were rugged roosters.  I then thought the cowboys could do that.  I then found sites where women were cooing about John Wayne and the cowboys from Lonesome Dove.  The cock boys were conceived.  Here is their beginning, we will see how they develop and how long they take me to do.

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Complementary Color Example

 Here are the steps that I took in creating my first of four color scheme examples.  I started with turquoise high-flo Golden Paint and Gesso,

I refined it by adding in the rocks, or islands.

I used the complement orange strait out of the bottle on the canvas.

Here all that I did was blend it in to the back ground with a little white.

More cad orange and white were added.

The two complements, orange and blue were used on the horizon and the rocks.

I used black to darken the rocks and add a dark front edge as well as add the sun in a yellow tone.  This addition makes it an analogous complement scheme.

To appear more realistic, the white was added in a glaze over the color at the horizon and at one edge of the two rocks.  I also used an orange in areas to tone down the blue.  This is not a highly realistic painting, but that is good as it only to about 45 minutes from beginning to end.

Demonstration: Working with Positive and Negative Shapes