Boardwalk Days part 48
Today I did a little more to look at what I had before I left home, to make sure I had everything with me that I needed. As a result, I did have the new brushes and paints with me today. Everything else was already there. I had no plans for music, but just brought the smaller jazz/blues book, and decided to figure it out there. Only a few cars in the parking lot, so I had my choice of spaces. All the boardwalk prints are printed on okawara, a Japanese paper, and very thin. Good for printing, but tricky for coloring. One has to be careful that the watercolor doesn't soak back around the ink into another part of the paper, and part of this is having the right thing underneath it. A few days ago when I started it, I had a piece of foam core, but one with a glossy finish, and as a result, the watercolor didn't absorb into the backing, but a little popped up in another place I didn't want it. I didn't worry about it too much, as this is just a practice copy, and the unwanted color may be obscured enough when another color is put in that space. For today's session I used the large corrugated cardboard box used for recently delivered paper, which seemed to have the right exterior texture for my needs.
Molly had been in since my last visit, but that didn't affect me. She wasn't there now, so I put on some music. No plan really, I just selected my home burned copy of Glen Miller live radio cuts, written about in the past in February of 2020. I got my table ready, pulled out the current color proof and my supplies, and got to work.
I picked up from last time, using my new tube of Buff Titanium to put in the light warm areas of Convention Hall, sand, light warm parts of the former Howard Johnson's, and a few other places it belonged. I repainted skin on a few figures, both large in the foreground and distant ones on the boards and beach, and some reds and oranges in some planned places. Even threw down some colors on beach figures, as long as I had them out, and some birds on the ground and in the air. That was enough for today. Results can be seen below:
So far it seems to be coming along. I think that's all the light and warm stuff. Next will be the neutrals (grays and light browns), then I will start on the cools and darks, including the largest piece, the sky.