I like the colors. I appreciate that. Let me fix my glasses I guess we'll restart this. Please
start go ahead okay with the motif that Jim is going to be using with this uh painting he has
great contrast with the whites and the cool grays he's probably gonna end up using with the shadows
and also the greenery in the background that has lots and lots of depth in it
because like he's gonna probably end up using a multitude shades of various different greens
from dark from light to dark and dark to light i'm uh jim mushette i am owner
of big jim's art and i work part-time over at the kingston hannaford and we are at the
Kingston Hannaford. All right, spoken like a true artist thank you Jim. You're welcome
starting with a red priming layer forces you to paint opaquely and i'll be using
a red priming later for this white truck i like the dark trees behind it the sky over here
the other parked cars beyond it my sketchbook easel is mounted on a tripod and i'm putting on
this diffuser it's a piece of white nylon which takes that harsh direct sun and diffuses it makes
it softer to work under now i'm drawing it in with a brush and i noticed that of course i'm
sitting straight in front of it so the front is symmetrical but it's tilting to the left
because the side of the road is tilting that way and i notice that in front of the front wheels are
railroad wheels so this vehicle this cement mixer must be designed to go on the railroad tracks
when the wind picks up a little bit it doesn't blow over my easel but it does
blow my diffuser out of whack so i have to pull it back into position
it's getting warm out and smooth is getting a little hot and dry
so i'll get him some water and find him a place in the shade
using burnt sienna and viridian gouache i paint some of the darks of the scene the dark green
under the windshield the dark trees around the truck and since this is only semi opaque
it only partially covers that red let me take you back the day before when i did the priming
you can use either casing or acrylic wash for a red toned ground i use white and a burnt sienna
or venetian red or any kind of iron-based red
what casein and acrylic gouache have in common is that they both provide a sealed surface
when they dry so they don't reactivate when you use a layer of wet gouache or watercolor over them
by using a big flat synthetic brush i can scrub that right onto the surface
the color i'm going for is a tint of a reddish brown kind of a dull pink
it's okay if the edges are uneven and if the whole thing looks a little bit rough
now let's get back to the painting
the nice thing about this kind of reddish colored under painting is that the greens
automatically activate on it because the light reddish color is the opposite or the complement
of green it also forces me to use opaque white to get these white colors of the cement mixer
hey you found a nice place smooth good boy
now as i paint the sky i can use more and more opaque white to cover that red priming color
you'll hardly see it in the areas that are covered by opaque greens or opaque whites
but it'll pop through here and there in little spaces and the energy of that red popping through
in between white areas or blue areas or green areas will act like hot sauce on a food dish
this is a Kenworth w-900 mixer it's owned by the Amtrak company and they use it to deliver
cement to make bridges and other places where they can't bring a regular mixer on wheels they
have to put it on the tracks and drive it around to get the cement where they need it
you see how that red color is popping through as i paint the green a little bit more opaquely
using an old flat brush painting in the greens of the foliage
and getting a little more opaque both with the light areas and the dark areas
this is a water-based paint so i can use a fountain pen
over it i'm using a pilot custom 912 fountain pen with yamaguri black ink
but this gives me a nice sharp line for the headlights
and for the grill work i can mix a pretty dark color using that viridian green
and burnt sienna ultramarine blue maybe in burnt sienna
and then that cast shadow on the fender
and i can come back in and paint the bright orange turn signals
so to wrap up let me list some of the reasons i like to use a red underpainting red priming color
number one i use it when i want to force myself to use opaque paints
sometimes i can use it for a middle tone for using black and white like under these holstein cows
i also use it when i have a subject that's mostly blues or greens
because it just provides a little contrasting spice to those
blue and green colors so for example underneath this forest scene is this red priming color i
also use it when i want to paint beyond the edges of things rather than just treating it
like a coloring book because it makes me need to cover up the line work in between shapes
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