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Whether you need to produce a still life or a pet portrait, painting a three dimensional object on a two dimensional canvas has invariably been a challenge. To do it convincingly whilst retaining the freshness in the picture is even harder. Beginners frequently grab the tube of black to show shadow effects on an object, but here lies disaster.

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For water colourists, it doesn’t matter if you’re considering a landscape or pet portrait, you’ll be probably be required to show areas of dark shadow. Many leisure painters, when first faced with dark areas in their picture, will quite often use a tube of black or produce muddy looking colours. Unfortunately, it can be quite difficult to see the different tones within dark areas, it’s far easier to judge colour tone in lighter shades.

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When you think of portraits, you normally think of oil painting. Nevertheless, many superb portraits have been done using water colour. Water colours offer a way of capturing quick informal studies that where they lack on detail, more than make up for it in character.

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Whether an artist is specialising in pet portraits, landscapes, or traditional portraits, keeping the colours as pure as possible is an important element to keeping their paintings fresh.

The way in which any colour appears is dependant on the circumstance in which it is seen. The way colours are seen is effected by the colours adjacent to it and on which it is set.

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Stretched canvas is a very popular option for pet portrait artists as a support for their paintings. However, there are other supports that can be just as suitable when you don’t have any canvases to hand. Wood has traditionally be used as a support for oils and is one of the earliest forms of support for painting.

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