Continue to paint short little strokes as you work your way up the moon. Then add titanium white to your not rinsed brush. To paint the moon, I used a #12 bright brush and primary yellow. Start at the bottom of the moon and paint short little strokes (and strokes outlining the bottom edge of the circle). If the white paint is too thick you may want to add a tiny bit of water to it and test it out to see if it splatters. Basically dip your brush in the white and gently flick it. Use a toothbrush to splatter white specks in the sky to represent stars. Go all the way to the edge of the canvas with the deep violet. I also added a little bit of white to my brush with the deep violet to get a few white streaks in that area. You might need to add a little dioxazine purple to your brush to help it transition a little more smoothly. Blend it in with the dioxazine purple by painting over that area. If you need to, rinse your brush to get all the white and dioxazine residue off. Try not to blend all the purple into one solid color. Also, some of the white shows up in streaks because there is still white on the brush. If you need to add more white to the brush, you may to help with the blending. Then gradually add more dioxazine purple to the brush and less white so the purple gets darker as you work your way away from the circle. Continue to paint in circles around the moon. Next add a little bit of dioxazine purple to your not rinsed brush with the white on it. Gently blend the purple into the white so that it becomes a light purple. This will be the lightest part of the sky and the white layer sets a basefor the light purple. ![]() Next use a 3/4″ flat brush and titanium white. Paint a white ring around the moon. You can locate a similar size circle or use a larger or smaller one. Trace A Circle For The Moonįor the moon circle, I used a Tupperware lid! The approximate diameter was 5″.
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