As I explained before I painted the Santa using my limited
supply of colors. I actually don’t think of this as a bad thing necessarily since
it has been years since I have painted any of my carvings. My skills as an
artist have improved in regards to painting which is good but what is bad is
that most of my work on paper is with water color, mostly water color pencils.
With water color you have, like all paints, the effects used
with layering the paint. The difference though is the effect of the somewhat
transparency in color. Using the right technique you can either darken or
lighten the color after it is applied. You can actually remove color in areas
as well, which helps with shading and texture. With painting carvings you are
not applying any shading techniques, you are applying color to match a certain
look to your carving. If you are carving a cowboy has he been on the range for
some time or is he all cleaned up to go courting? The way he is painted will
answer many of these questions.
I will share more on this as I learn more myself, but for
now I need to continue to improve my carving technique. I want my cartoons to
come to life in wood. Here is a cartoon of Santa I did awhile back.
Although I like the Santa carving I did I don’t know if it matches with my
cartoons yet, but they will, one day they will.
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