Sketches & Planning:
There wasn't much to really sketch or plan out besides the butterfly because I didn't want to free handily do it and perhaps mess up. In my sketchbook I decided to sketch out a basis of a butterfly and sort of use that as my template. In regards to the fire, that was the hardest part of this painting. I've never painted fire before, and I wasn't sure of how to even practice painting fire, so I just went straight for it when I began my painting. I was thinking of using markers to sort of practice but I didn't believe that benefited me much due to the fact that Oil Paints are much much more different than regular markers. So, for my sketches I pretty much practiced sketching out butterflies! I did multiple sketches of butterflies to understand how to paint it the right way onto my canvas. |