In the Studio

Sorry I missed yesterday…just didn’t get any time at the easel. Computer, the slave driver that it is, wouldn’t let me escape it. Noooooooooo

Anyhoo, here is today’s installment so far. I say so far because I’m likely to do more work on it yet today IF the computer doesn’t keep me here.

Today I started detailing the background from the top down. I’m working out what will be where and how detailed it will be. I’ll likely “kill” some of the details I’m creating to push it further into the background, but it will depend on how detailed and sharp the foreground is. So far to kill it all I’ve had to do is rub it lightly with a kleenex tissue. Blurs out the edges of the marks enough to give them that out of focus distant feel. I’m kinda winging the background as I go along, deciding where to put a twig or a branch or a rock, or some other miscellaneous natural debris that is common in the grassy woodland that this wolf calls home. I haven’t done anything new yet on the bottom half of the picture, that will come later.