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 The river in Taman Negara National Park, Malaysia is a river full of life and energy. The water at certain areas of the river were mysteriously quite and calm but yet energetic near the rocks formation at some areas. In this painting, I decided to explore the quietness and yet fast moving water gashing through the rocks that seems to layout in a manner that created an opening or bottle neck effect to the river. |
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Step-by-step demonstration of how to paint |
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Step One
Define the composition of the painting using
a pencil. I start by painting the sky and follow by the forest
at the right side of the painting. Giving this part of the forest
a more warmer set of green to show the casting of the sunlight
into this area. Darker shades of green were added to define
the depth of the thick vegetations.
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Step Two
Next I masked out the rocks and some area of
highlight in the water before I started out to paint the water.
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| Step Three
Brushing a layer of clean
water to the area on the paper where the water of the river is.
I prepare some warm range of green and browns to show the brownish
and muddy look. The colours were allow to flow and blend with
the layer of water that I have applied on the paper earlier. Tilting
the paper to allow the colours to flow in the direction of the
gashing water.
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| Step Four Bluish-green
dashes were applied to the vegetations in the background. Adding
more cool range of green colours with blue will separates the
background from the foreground. The maskings on the rocks and
highlight were then removed and ready for painting of the rocks.
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| Step Five The
edges of the rocks were soften with a damp brush and tissue paper
to remove the harshness of the rocks cause by the masking. This
will make the flowing down of the water from the rocks more convincing.
Highlights of white area were kept where painting the rocks and
darkere shades were applied to anchor the rocks into the water.
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| Step Six The
painting is completed by adding the adding the shadows and shades
of the rocks and finally with the signature of the artist.
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