Lowell is going to show you an effective way to paint leaves on a black background.

Key Points To Consider:

• The canvas is coated with “Alexander Black Medium,” NOT an acrylic black paint. Sometimes we show a technique where the background is painted black with acrylic paint, and allowed to dry, but today Lowell is using a wet Black Medium.
• Alexander Black Medium is a thin paint, same consistency as Magic White®.
• He adds a transparent paint, Alizarin Crimson, onto and into the Black Medium. Notice how he goes over the same area multiple times to work the color into the Black Medium.
• He starts up at the top of the stem where the leaves would be the lightest.
• He doesn’t reload as he works down the stem which gives the appearance of darker leaves because he is losing white paint as he goes along.
• Lowell doesn’t work the Alizarin Crimson into the Magic White® as much as he did the Black Medium which means the paint was a little thicker in the white area. This is one of the reasons the technique wasn’t as effective.

If you understand key concepts and techniques anything is possible!

Happy Painting!

Laurie and Dawn

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