Fireworks 3

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Priming for Highlights

Are you wondering what all this white paint is doing here? If I were to just paint the highlights over the petals, the dark colors would show through and tint the paint. So artists often do an undercoat of white to make sure their light colors are bright enough (lighter paints, especially yellow, tend to be more transparent than darks). It can take two or even three coats of white paint to really cover up the dark paint. This painting is still in the “mess stage” (professional art term thereJ…), before all the elements have quite come together.