Gillian’s Farm…part two

The Gillian Farm painting continues…

I’ve made the roof and door yellow to blend with the wall color Lauren added in the nursery.

 

 

 

 

 

I tried adding a weathervane to the barn roof, but the scale is wrong, so I think I’ll paint it out…

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is how I figure out where the different animals will go in the scene…first, I draw them on tracing paper…

 

 

 

 

 

Then I slide the drawing around until, in this case, the horse looks naural with the right scale…then I put a piece of graphite transfer paper (like the old carbon paper but not as waxy) under my drawing and draw over it to transfer the lines to the canvas…

 

 

 

 

Here are the products I used to place the animals in the scene…available at any art store or online.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are the animals placed in their farm surroundings…and underpainted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s a close-up of the flock of sheep I painted on the far hillside…it appears that farmgirl Gillian is having a cozy fire in her little pink farmhouse

(I’ll post Gillian’s Farm Part Three photos in a day or two…stay tuned!)