Description www.cheapjoes.com -- Welcome to Artist Palette Productions at Cheap Joe's Art Stuff In this segment, I'm going to show you how I go about painting one of my water in landscape pieces. This time I'm starting with a photograph that I shot on location. Sometimes I work en plein air, but a lot of times I like to go back and work in my studio. I have my picture, I've printed it, and I want to make sure it's not the only copy I have of the photo. Then the next thing is my color palette - especially with pastels. I'm going to hold the picture up and pick some of my colors in this piece based on this picture. I don't need to pick every color but I do want to have some idea. When you're picking your colors you want to think about your complimentary colors, some lights, some darks, some brighter colors - basically a nice variety. Also the fun thing about pastels is picking the "surprise color" which we'll do later on. Now that I have my palette picked out, I want to pick my background color. This is a scrap of paper that is the same color as the final. It's really good to have a border around your pastel paper so I can come in and not only test the colors but test the marks. It's good to practice what you're doing before you're working on the final and the final will be better. As you can see here, you have the light colors, some darks and some brighter colors. Back at the easel now. I mentioned that the "body has memory." It's really important to practice - whether I'm doing this <b>...</b>
