Art - Painting Technique "Flame and Halo"

This was the scene before
working on the flame and halo.

The flame had first been painted in the
colour of -
a very small amount of yellow + white,
to give a very light cream.









This is a close-up of the flame.


                                         

Then the whole flame was painted in a colour -
slightly more yellow + white,
to give a cream.

When I started to paint the halo
around the flame,
I started with a colour -
yellow + a very small amount of red,
to give a golden yellow.
I painted this colour in an area around the flame
over the curtain
but also lapped it over
the edges of the cream colour of the flame.







For the halo,
the next colour that I used was a -
yellow + some red,
to give an orange.
This I blended into the golden yellow
around the flame, but not touching the
flame itself.
And also extended this colour further
away from the flame than the golden
yellow had gone.

The last colour that I used for the halo,
was a -
yellow + more red,
to give a red orange.
                                                                                       This I blended into the orange,
                                                                                       and also extended it further away from
                                                                                       the flame,
                                                                                       than the orange had gone.

(this was painted in acrylic paint)


(c) Katherine Stuart 2014