This is the final painting. I added a crow for interest and also for composition in order to direct the eye into the painting to facilitate eye-movement. I like to put crows somewhere in my vintage truck paintings. The finished size of this painting is 22" x 30, and the paints used were Golden fluid acrylics. White gouache was used in the area next to the hood for contrast.
This is my painting after a couple hours of painting. I continued to use the fluid acrylics in the small cups.
The painting was placed on a large, old towel to stop drips from going onto the floor or table. After thoroughly wetting the watercolor paper, I dropped the paint onto the paper by pouring from the cups and also, for smaller areas, I dropped color in with the eye droppers. I used the spray bottle to move the paint around, allowing the paint to accumulate on the edges of the paper. I blotted this paint up with a paper towel to prevent back flows. Then more paint was added the the process repeated while the paper was wet.
The truck picture is of a truck in Bay Village, Ohio. The supplies for pouring are a spray bottle, eye droppers, a sponge, brush, water and the prepared paint, in this case I used fluid acrylics from Golden paints diluted with water.
This is the pencil line drawing on a full sheet of Arches 140 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper. I used a pencil grid to do the drawing. I divided the paper into 16 squares. The source photo was placed into a clear plastic envelope and it was also divided in 16 squares. I tried to reproduce each square on the large paper - typical grid drawing.
