Daylight Lighthouse - Part 2

Step Six: Out of the shadows After thoroughly removing the frisket and redrawing lost areas, I painted the shadow areas on the lighthouse in the same blue as the sky. Next I used blues, grays, and greens to paint the causeway leading to the lighthouse. I fished these colors from the various mixtures already on my palette. While I had a clean mixture of Hooker's green in my #5 brush I invented some landscaping at the base of the building. I studied the forms at the base of the building and redrew them, a light colored rail and pier was up against rusty pylons that shored up the base of the building. Step Seven: From the ground up Using local color of Raw sienna, Burnt sienna, and Alizarin crimson I quickly indicated the basic shapes surrounding the bottom of the building at the waterline. I next mixed some Alizarin crimson with a touch of Sap green to gray it a bit and painted the red roof tops of the lighthouse. I notice the foreground rocks were starting to get in the way, so I used a grayed down Cerulean to tone down their prominence in the foreground. Step Eight: Building up details I intensified the value of the shadows on the lighthouse, solidifying the form a bit more, and dropped an indication of a chimney shadow on the roof. Still working with the #5 Round Sable I blended Hooker's green with Burnt umber to get a richer color for the darker wave forms and started picking out the darks reflecting at the base of the lighthouse and the foreground water areas above the rocks. Rinsing my brush, I dipped into some left over Cerulean blue wash and took another swipe at the sailboat on the right. Step Nine: Painting the trim After the last additions dried, I picked up some of the red roof wash from before and indicated shutters on the building with some small quick strokes of paint. I added some ultramarine to the Raw sienna, Burnt sienna, and Alizarin rusty brown and ochre washes to darken them. I then painted a few anchoring details on the rusty break walls and wooden pier. Returning to a mixture of Hooker's green and Sap green I used my #5 round sable to paint the final shapes of the shrubs and grassy areas at the base of the lighthouse. Step Ten: Finished Painting Using my #0 round red sable I found a suitably dark gray in the mess on my palette and added the final details on and around the building, mostly rails and poles. After this dried, I used a softened kneaded eraser to remove any pencil lines from the painting. I placed a mat over the painting to see if it was done. It was. I used a Burnt Sienna wash in my #0 round red sable to sign my name.