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Thursday, 7 June 2012

A recent painting of a photo I took of the Grand Canyon from last year.I used more colour in this painting than I have done before with the chinese brush painting. The base is done with the black ink. Then I slowly worked over the image with a colour triad, red, yellow and blue. This combination of colours works good together, and the ink helps to define the outlines.I managed to create a focal point in the centre of the painting, where the eye is drawn to the river in the far distance by the high contrast in value. The separation in the foreground between the two ridges also helps to create interest in the foreground, thus the eye is drawn back and forth between foreground and far distance.

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