01-08-2016, 09:03 AM
I wanted to learn how to paint basalt so I'm doing a basalt island study using this photo from Getty Images as a reference.
I am deliberately not using the eye dropper tool to sample colours from the photo reference but instead I'm practicing guessing the colours myself.
Using the trick of starting out on a small canvas (quicker to paint and less resource intensive on my machine), first I painted the sky.
Then I blocked-in the water.
Then the basalt island:
At this point I viewed the image in grayscale to check the values (brightness) of the various components:
This looked OK to me so I scaled the image up by 300% and started painting in more detail:
I am deliberately not using the eye dropper tool to sample colours from the photo reference but instead I'm practicing guessing the colours myself.
Using the trick of starting out on a small canvas (quicker to paint and less resource intensive on my machine), first I painted the sky.
Then I blocked-in the water.
Then the basalt island:
At this point I viewed the image in grayscale to check the values (brightness) of the various components:
This looked OK to me so I scaled the image up by 300% and started painting in more detail:
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