Champ the Boxer
Posted by Judy Moore Mudd | Filed under Animals
Name: Champ
Medium: Watercolor on 140# Fabriano Aquarelle, professional grade paper
Size: 5×7″
I loved the face on this dog. Very expressive.
My Process: I started wet-in-wet glazes on his ears using raw sienna, new gamboge and burnt sienna, moving down to the colorful parts of his face, dropping in ultramarine blue for the darks around his eyes and down around his mouth. I added pinks to his mouth area and let dry, then worked his nose and darks on his lips, lifting out the lighter areas and adding darks inside his nostrils. I finished his body color before ending with the eye area. In his eyes, I first painted raw sienna, then added burnt sienna, and finally added ultramarine blue for the very darkest color. I painted around the specks of light in his eyes and on his lids. After the eyes dried, I carefully lifted the circular areas around the pupil, bringing back some of the underlayers of the raw sienna and burnt sienna to show the depth in his eyes. Inside his right ear, I lifted to show the subtle shapes and then dropped in some soft pinks. I finished with the background using a loose wash of cobalt blue, leaving a few white areas.
SOLD! Collection: M.S., Cumming, GA
