Nahiku Rooster

  I spent a year and a half in Nahiku on my friend and artist Tom Booth's land.  This is where I transcribed my painting notes into this course. Thanks Tom.

  First the major colors were laid in over a chalk drawing.  Brush off the extra chalk before starting to paint.  The palm tree was was re-drawn and painted in white, the colors in the palm were painted over this. In water colors I would have left a white space for the whole palm tree,  Acrylics are a fairly translucent medium, not like the oils of 1900.  Back then the color Naples Yellow in it's many tints were made of antimony and were very opaque. Acrylics are a lot like watercolors.