Day Six

Today we put in the lights and darks on some of our books.  To do this we took our base color and mixed it with its compliment too make the darker areas.  Then we mixed in lighter tones to show the light ones.  We put the light areas on in a dry brush to show the how old the books were.  The dry brush was put on in just a few strokes, as to not overdue the paint.  Then we worked on the little bird sitting in the nest.  We used darks first and then put on the lights.  The nest we did the same and put light brush strokes of a brighter yellow to show the different ways the "straw" was sitting.