https://s2.postimg.org/v3tzz9ryh/stim6.jpg This painting was a commission work, oil on canvas 30x40 cm. I made few sketches at the start and the customer chose such small figures in a landscape. I used some customer's references of a girl and dogs. The landscape is a pure fantasy from imagination.

1) Quick sketch

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When you are doing a drawing on a canvas try to be very precise and clean because it's nearly to impossible to erase on such kind of material. Thats why it looks so terrible :) Also, the sketch doesn't need to be very detailed because oil is a very flexible technique where you can fix all shortcomings of a drawing.

2) First layer

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I was working in a la prima technique with pasty strokes. That made my painting very decorative and close to impressionism. I used wide strokes in combination with some small ones.

3) White spots covering

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Only some objects have 2 layers of paint. At this point, I nearly covered all white spots on canvas. You can't start the main painting stage with these white spots.

4) Tonal and color relations

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When we have the overall color image of our painting, we can start to render some tonal and color relations. If you have a lot of pasty wet parts and want to make some changes inside of them, better will be to wait when your painting will dry up a little bit (1 day).

5) Foreground and charcters

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Some details were added in important parts of the painting: dog, girl, tree, foreground flowers, etc. The large cloud was fixed in tone and color.

6) Final details

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At the end, I painted detailed grass at the foreground and at the average plan. Also, some little things were added to make the painting more interesting and complex.

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