Using brush strokes that go downward,
paint the entire area where you want
the curtain to be,
in a foundation colour.
I have used a colour -
some red + some yellow,
to give a red orange,
+ white,
to give a light red orange,
+ a very small amount of blue,
to give this colour a pinkish tinge.
Using brush strokes that go downward,
paint areas of your curtain
that are in shadow,
using a darker colour.
I have used a colour -
red + some blue,
to give a red purple.
I painted it lightly over the
foundation colour.
And ran a second coat along the edge
of the "shadow" area
to give a darker line.
I reworked the curtain quite a bit in
this step.
I mixed up a mid-tone of -
some red + some yellow,
to give a red orange,
+ a much smaller amount
of white than the foundation colour,
+ a very small amount of blue.
Using brush strokes going downward,
I painted this colour over the mid-tone
areas of the shadow,
covering over some of the darker
edges.
The darker edges that I did leave,
were a bit too dark,
so I mixed -
the mid-tone + water,
and went over them with one coat.
This muted the dark colour.
I also painted lightly, one coat of this
mixture over the foundation colour, not
too thick so that you can still see the
underlying colour.
(This was painted in acrylic paint)
(c) Katherine Stuart 2014
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