This is the last of three cute kids-playing-in-the-snow painting lessons on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site. This one is called “Sledding Friends” and it, too, is painted on 8×8 canvas. I toned it with Golden’s “India Yellow Hue” and matte medium. As with the “Building a Snowman” painting, I referred only to the reference photo, and not to Ali’s painting or her online video.

I think I prefer the India Yellow Hue to the Yellow Ochre for toning; it’s more mellow. (It is also much more expensive than Yellow Ochre, unfortunately.) The Golden Paints website states that it is a mixture of Benzimidazolone Yellow (PY 175), Nickel Azo (PY 150) and a Quinacridone Red (PR 206). Weirdly, it is “modern mixture replacing the pigment originally produced in the early 1800’s by collecting urine from oxen fed only mango leaves”. (!)

The outfit of the boy in front is painted with Anthraquinone Blue and Ultramarine Blue, tinted with white. The boy in back is painted with Burnt Umber Light, Mars Black, and white as necessary. The snow is tinted with the India Yellow Hue, and, in places, with Ultramarine Blue.

I painted the snow quite thickly, which was fun!

I’m calling this 8×8 painting finished — and I quite like it. I made the girl’s mitten pink, her coat a basic red, and finished the snowman. I left the boy’s mittens alone.

Just to keep kosher with credits, this painting is from a reference image I got on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site.

This is a painting I’m doing on an toned-in-yellow-ochre 8×8 canvas that is one of three cute kids-playing-in-the-snow painting lessons on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site. Unlike the “Rolling Snow” painting I just finished, I have not referred to Ali’s painting or to her video at all. I’m just using her reference photo.

Left to do is to finish the snowman, obviously, and I want to adjust the shape of its head. The girl’s jacket I’ll complete in a lighter brighter red than the red used for the creases and shadows. I had planned to do pink and white striped mittens; I’ve decided to make the mittens all pink.

The boy is basically done, but once I’ve got the snowman complete I will come back and layer more yellow on to the boy’s sleeves and collar, so it doesn’t get lost in the toned background. I may need to adjust the mitten color so it is more clearly a sky blue.

Okay, it’s done! One thing I’m not totally satisfied with is that the darkest green of the outfit looks almost black. I’m not sure if it was my color choice (“Forest Green” — a premixed color — by Chroma Atelier), or if it’s because I had painted that value map with such a dark color.

It was an interesting experiment to follow along (more or less) with the painting lesson on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site. Next up will be a painting of two kids building a snowman.

I changed my mind… I am, in fact, following along with cute kids-playing-in-the-snow painting lesson on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site. The first step was to make a value map showing the dark and light areas. Then I did the snow and trees, and the snow — even if it looks white — is tinged with phthalo blue. (I’m actually using the Liquitex Soft Body “Light Blue Permanent” which is a pre-mixed combo of Phthalo Green, Phthalo Blue Green Shade and Titanium White. I’ve added more white to it. (As it almost gone, I’m also using Liquitex’s BASICS “Light Blue Permanent” which is the same color mix.)

There are a couple of cute kids-playing-in-the-snow painting lessons on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site. I’m going to do my own painting rather than follow along with Ali Kay, but one thing I noticed in her final painting that I liked was that the child and the distant background have what looks like a magenta undertone, while the snowy area has an orange undertone.

So, I’ve traced the provided 8×8 template on to an 8×8 canvas, and I’ve painted the magenta red, and the orange.