before I started to shade it.
The foundation colour is -
white.
I had painted over the outline
to smooth out the other colours
that had gone over the edge
into the saucer area.
So, the whitish line of paint
that you can see around the edge
is from that.
To shade in the saucer
I have used only one colour, a -
white + some black.
to give a dark grey.
I started first with a colour -
a small amount of dark grey +
a large amount of water,
to give a light grey.
Using circular brush strokes
going around the saucer,
I painted this in the whole area
of the saucer, except the rim.
Then, I used a colour -
a small amount of dark grey +
a small amount of water,
to give a middle tone grey.
Using circular brush strokes
going around the saucer,
I painted this in a narrow area
going alongside, but not into,
the rim at the bottom of the saucer.
This creates the "shadow".
Lastly, I used the colour -
dark grey.
I painted this in an even narrower band
right alongside, but not into,
the rim at the bottom of the saucer,
tapering the ends.
This finishes this shadow.
With the same colour,
I painted a very thin line
beside the left side of the candle,
within the saucer area.
This gives a small shadow
behind the candle.
It took a bit of re-working
to blend the bottom shadow
properly into the light grey.
I also evened out
the pointy edge
at the bottom of the saucer,
with a bit of the left over -
brown.
(This was painted with acrylic paint)
(c) Katherine Stuart 2014
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