The History of the Kingdom of The West
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Photo and Contribution
by Tatiana Nikolaevna Tumanova

"This photo (slightly truncated) is of another color study and practice rendering of the landscape and the thundercloud. The previous rough was just to get the colors for the sky right; this one did the same for the hills but was also practice on painting the cloud shapes and getting the right "feathery" look to the top of a typical cumulonimbus "anvil" cloud and also rendering rain and lightning. The blue sky was livened up a touch by adding a slight bit of Alizarin Crimson to the blue mixture along the upper edge. This was also a check on the contrast -- i.e., getting the lights and darks properly adjusted. Despite the fact that the edges of the clouds look "white" -- they aren't. The only unadulterated white is in the lightning bolt. Also, no black was used to darken the clouds -- all of the color in the clouds is some shade of blue which was darkened by the addition of orange or lightened by using some white.

"The rolling hillsides were rendered predominately in a mixture of Permanent Green Middle and Spectrum Yellow. The straight mixture was used in the foreground; additional green and a slight touch of Spectrum Red darkened it for the hillside in the middle ground. Splotches of the mixture were used in the "tree line" in the middle ground, then the mixture used on the middle hill was darkened up even more with additional red and applied in more splotches. The darkest parts were made by adding some Alizarin Crimson to the darkest mixture. The paint was splotched on using the corner of a #2 bright brush to give it a "leafy" texture. The farthest hillside was painted in a mixture of the Permanent Green Middle and Phalo Blue, dulled slightly with orange and then lightened just a touch with white. Some of this mixture without the white was used to make the darker trees on this distant hillside." -- Tatiana Nikolaevna Tumanova

The West Kingdom History Website was created by and is maintained by Hirsch von Henford (mka Ken Mayer).