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The watercolor lace painting

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Step by step

The first pass was creating a difference between the lace panels; some were warmer in color, some cooler, and I added some golden light to a few just to brighten things up a bit. Negative painting leaves the whitest whites as plain paper.

Next, negative painting to create lace textures - golds into browns for depth.

This linen piece was really fun - creating the bobbles in the fabric like this line:

…followed by the embroidered daisies and crosshatched texture…

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Then the tatting - I think this is tatting? Some golden colors in sunny areas…

…and more neutral browns in shadows.

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The embroidered floral was a fun punch of color! Nice strong colors….

…then a nice big shadow to make that fabric push behind the lace.

The last bit was the almost beaded detail that had gotten lost - and a little white on the details on that piece of lace since it felt like it sunk too deep into shadow..

All done!

Is there a particular lace you’d want to see fleshed out more? I think this whole painting is a bit much for a tutorial but I’d be happy to try to do something :)

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