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  • Planning your painting

    Learning Intention:  Preparing the background of your paper and building up images

    Last term you were asked to practise drawing and refining a character from the story of "Alice in Wonderland". It's time to begin painting that composition.  I'm going to use the cheshire cat and give him a 'Hawain' feel like this print below.

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    To Do:

    1.Think about the colour scheme in the background of your painting.  What sort of mood are you trying to convey?

    2Divide your background into two or three areas. i'e..a sky and ground or structure, ground and sky or just internal walls of a room.  Mix up light tones of the paint colours you require for each section and paint a base layer.

    3Work over those layers with dry brush or blending until you get the desired finish.

    4Draw your characters over the top of the background

    NB:  If you paint a very dark background colour your character will have to be pencilled in first as it is often harder with acrylic paint to paint over darker colours.