Warm and Cool Darks: 9/5/11

In this phase, I added cool darks and warm darks.  I used my own handmade oil paints, which are a mixture of walnut oil and pure pigment.  I mixed the paints with straight walnut oil and laid them in the shadow areas.  I used a more golden dark for the warm darks, and a more lavendar dark for the cool darks.  I don't own any black pigments; I do keep a box of leftover chips, scraps, scrapings, and pills of all colors of pigment; when I have enough, I soak them in some oil and break them up to make my darkest colors from.

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The next phase is shown below.  Click on the photo for an explanation.