If it is too dark, it won’t stand out against the gray color of the robe. Note: You want the hair to stay light for the most part, especially if you will be painting the robe gray. Use your round brush to paint light gray strokes in the hair. Make sure your #4 round brush goes in the curved direction of the hair (painting the strands vertically). You want it to be darker than the background so it doesn’t blend too much into it. The raw Sienna will darken that beige color a bit. Use a #4 round brush and the colors: unbleached titanium mixed with a TINY bit of raw Sienna. Next lightly draw a heart (or whatever you would like her to hold). Next lightly sketch the robe and have it go all the way to the bottom and overlap the pink area.ĭraw two ovals for the feet under the robe. Start with two large curved areas that gather to almost a point and draw the hair-ties. I decided to draw a heart on the tip of the hat. Then draw the rest of the hat all the way to the top of the canvas and have it point downwards to a point. Then draw the bottom part of the hat so that hangs above the top part of the nose. If you are drawing, use a pencil and lightly draw the nose in the middle area of the canvas. You can choose to hand-draw the gnome or use the traceables. Wait for your canvas to completely dry before going to the next step. Use the 3/4″ flat wash brush to paint left and right horizontal strokes on the bottom.įeel free to add some white or other colors from your palette into it. Load your palette with “quinacridone magenta”. Keep this layer of paint thin and slightly watered down. Create areas in the background that have different variations of the three colors. You can control how much pink or white or beige you would like to see.įill up the entire canvas blending the three colors together but do not blend all the way. These three colors combine to make a beautiful pastel-like background.

You will be painting “X” style strokes all throughout the canvas (above the line) to create an abstract background. Then “triple load” the brush in the three colors. Use a 3/4″ flat wash brush for this step. Next load your palette in the three colors: light portrait pink, titanium white and unbleached titanium. Use a ruler to draw a straight horizontal line on the bottom (about 3-4 inches from the bottom).

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