The History of the Kingdom of The West
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The White Underpainting

Photo and Contribution
by Tatiana Nikolaevna Tumanova

The White Underpainting
It was time to take a deep breath and start painting the aurora onto the painted sky background. A lot of time went into working and reworking the white version of the aurora to get the right look and to "soften" the edges of the paint. This wasn't as successful as I hoped due to the fact that the white paint was resting on top of two other layers of paint. Too much scrubbing around, and the under painting started to shine up through, along with more of the pernicious black dye in the illustration board below. In a couple of places, I had to restore the blue paint around it. It never got as softly luminous a look as that second color study, but eventually I had to stop playing with it or risk ruining what I had. -- Tatiana Nikolaevna Tumanova

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