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    7) Step by Step Demonstrations: 7a Cast Away #2

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    This document provides step-by-step instructions for painting the popular artwork "Cast Away #2". It describes the process from initial sketch to final details. Key points covered include blocking in base colors, blending acrylic and oil paint layers to create dramatic effects, adding multiple sky reflection passes over ocean blends, and detailing elements like clouds, foam, and pandanus fronds through multiple layers and passes. The goal is to demonstrate the systematic workflow used to piece together one of the artist's most successful paintings.

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    7) Step by Step Demonstrations: 7a Cast Away #2

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    This document provides step-by-step instructions for painting the popular artwork "Cast Away #2". It describes the process from initial sketch to final details. Key points covered include blocking in base colors, blending acrylic and oil paint layers to create dramatic effects, adding multiple sky reflection passes over ocean blends, and detailing elements like clouds, foam, and pandanus fronds through multiple layers and passes. The goal is to demonstrate the systematic workflow used to piece together one of the artist's most successful paintings.

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    tutorial de pintura al oleo

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    scott christensen

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    This document provides step-by-step instructions for painting the popular artwork "Cast Away #2". It describes the process from initial sketch to final details. Key points covered include blocking in base colors, blending acrylic and oil paint layers to create dramatic effects, adding multiple sky reflection passes over ocean blends, and detailing elements like clouds, foam, and pandanus fronds through multiple layers and passes. The goal is to demonstrate the systematic workflow used to piece together one of the artist's most successful paintings.

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    7) Step by Step Demonstrations: 7a Cast Away #2

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    Pedro Chacin
    This document provides step-by-step instructions for painting the popular artwork "Cast Away #2". It describes the process from initial sketch to final details. Key points covered include blocking in base colors, blending acrylic and oil paint layers to create dramatic effects, adding multiple sky reflection passes over ocean blends, and detailing elements like clouds, foam, and pandanus fronds through multiple layers and passes. The goal is to demonstrate the systematic workflow used to piece together one of the artist's most successful paintings.

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    7) Step by Step Demonstrations

    I’m going to show you how I pieced together my most popular paintings – the ones that have made me a lot of money and
    continue to do so. It will help you to understand the process.

    Watch all of them through to the end and then come back and watch them again - one at a time. They’re all available as print
    ready PDF’s -so print off a couple and take some time out to study them.

    You’ll get a better grasp on the systematic workflow I use.

    Let’s start with Cast Away #2 

    7a Cast Away #2

    Let’s begin with the sketch draft or design – whatever you want to call it. This one was painted early in my career and so you can
    see the design didn’t include much detail. What it did include was the sense of balance and focus on the lip of the main wave.
    You can see the Pandanus fronds are numbered – you need to do that when painting in multiples or otherwise you’ll end up
    with a real mess.
    Ok – here we have projected the line and this is the first base coat of acrylic colour… It gives you a sense straight away as to
    where the painting is headed. That headland was blocked in in black then I overpainted it with the acrylic sky blend and its given
    it a sense of distance already…

    Here you can see all of the painting has been covered in the first oil paint layer except for the white-water and rocks. Notice the
    dramatic colour blend in the water. Oil paints are the best way to create these blends. After the blend was done, I went back in
    and darkened the colours at the bases of the wave and smoothed it right out – you can't get that finish with acrylics…It looks
    airbrushed but it isn’t.

    Here I did a second pass on the headland and worked it for a couple of hours with a light to dark blend and used the semi circle
    cut brush to lay in what looks like distant trees. What a dramatic change to the picture when you lay in the sky reflections over
    the ocean blend. So the ocean blend had to be dry – and the method is to detail in and blend out the hard edges straight away.
    Add the blue, soften off straight away, add and soften, add and soften. When you do this keep your brush strokes fluid not rigid
    and keep working the water until you are happy…if you make a mistake simply smooth out a bit hard with the blending brush
    and you’ll easily rub it away… and use the appropriate brush size for each section you are working. I usually have about 6
    brushes out when doing the sky reflections layer.
    Here I've added the clouds first pass, white water, scuds and foam trails first pass and sky reflections second pass, as well as the
    distant white-water and and salt spray and also added the bottom sand oil blend. Notice the second sky reflection pass I've gone
    a shade lighter and added some near white highlights to the lip of the waves.
    Rocks and foam trails added and the spray back…along with the shadowing under the white waters….The hard edged rocks
    against the smooth water blends make them pop…

    This is where the ordering of the branches came into play…Its show the first pass or layer of the fronds…

    Time to get some detail on those branches while we wait for other things to dry....

    I did about 5 passes on the Pandanus before I was 100% happy. Notice the red tips – doesn’t really happen in real life… the tips
    do brown off but it created some real drama with the green background.

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