Solar Flare Underpainting

Here's a mini video showing how to prep your sketchbook page with a solar flare underpainting. (Link to watch video on YouTube).

Here's what the page looked like as I was preparing it. It's good practice to do those gradations with a big flat brush, wet into wet.

When I painted this, I didn't know what I would choose for the final subject, but I had to find a view facing toward the sun, where a dark object blocks the light. Note that there's a gradation in the sky, too, going from pale yellow to a cooler and darker tone at the edges.

This is an excerpt from my new video tutorial, "Casein in the Wild."

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