Three Little Gems

One of our readers wanted to know what brand of Alkyd Oil Paints we use. Jack and I like Winsor-Newton Griffin Alkyds which can be  purchased at JerrysArtarama.com  There is no need to use any mediums or grounds with the Alkyds and they come in the very same colors as regular oil paints. If you don’t want the Alkyds to dry quite as quickly they can be intermixed with regular oil paints! OK, back to the easel. The flowers are completely dry so we’ll work on Gragson first. I pull out a special color for his beautiful coat, Ivory Black. White is mixed in for the highlights on his shiny fur. I let a little of the blue from the container behind him reflect onto the side of his face and back.

Rumsfeld is next. I love his eyebrows, doesn’t he remind you of Donald Rumsfeld? His coat is painted with various mixtures of Ultramarine Blue + Cadmium Orange + White. Some of the Black left over from Gragson is used on Rumsfeld’s shoulder. Since the sun is shining from the upper left the catch light in his eye is placed at the edge of the pupil at 11 o’clock. Light transmits through the cornea, illuminating the iris on the opposite side. So the area of the brown iris from 5 o’clock to 7 o’clock is made lighter. You can see this better if you’ll enlarge the picture, just click on the image.

Now, pretty little Baby is painted. I let her fluffy tail hang over the edge of the box which adds to the dimension.

“Three Little Gems” is complete. Don’t you think that’s a nifty gift idea Denise came up with?

 

Here’s a couple of pictures from other angles so you can see how the design works. The most fun thing is Denise is going to make a unique piece of Jewelry for Maria. So she’ll have a gift within a gift! Isn’t that so cool? Hugs,

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