I paint architectural perspective paintings of buildings which are deserted but clearly lived in and tended to.
I use acrylic craft paints on canvas boards.
My tools are fine brushes, fan brushes, some homemade or modified brushes, toothbrushes, sponges, and a steak knife.
I use the color block and reverse shading methods.
In color block, you paint background colors or the gist of a painting in large blocks of color to avoid needing outlines. So first draw on the canvass with pencil, then paint the different areas of the major colors, then paint in details over it. It starts with an unprimed canvass. The reverse shading is when, as in the stone arch below, the mortar color in shadow was painted first, then the blocks of stone were painted over it. This comes from people who paint miniatures. Then I textured the stones by sponging the light reflected off of them in on the shapes of the stones.
How do you all do it?
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Painting of a mom and pop grocery store in the midwest
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A Byzantine city at night in the middle ages
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My work in progress, a dar/ atrium inside of a house in Damascus
I particularly like your great sense of colour balance. For example, in the arch picture, the orangey colour on the building on the left, is balanced by a slightly brighter version in the window of the building on the right.
The undertones of the colours in each picture support each other.
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