Pencil sketch on a thick watercolor pad, having delimited the same size as the opus 1 painting:
I mixed orange and crimson for the façade that I applied with a large synthetic brush, and wiped paint with less than more success where the lamp and some clothes needed to be white. I applied some yellow around the window:
For the window blinds I used a mix of turquoise and ultramarine:
While the light blue was drying, I worked with burnt sienna and black on the lamp, and then proceeded to paint details on the blinds with ultramarine:
I used burnt sienna for the shadows, included that of the clothesline, and black for the clothes in the back and shadow of the window blinds. I added an extra layer of blue for shadows and contrast on the blinds and let that dry:
With more black I finished the shadows between the blinds, corrected the shape of the lamp and added details around it. Then I grabbed a white Posca pen and traced the clotheslines, added white to the top of the lamp, and marked the window sill. I then used white watercolor to paint the white clothes:
Having painted white the glass of the lamp, the painting was finished. Here is it, in a 40×30 cm frame, ready to be given to the friend who received opus 1:
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Tags: commission, Nice, Posca, Vieux Nice, watercolor
