A Crystal painting step by step

I have a crystal ornament or two :)
The one that I wanted to paint is a peacock.
It casts some beautiful rainbows, but you have to look very very closely to see the colour in it.
So I took a photo and blew it up and from there I started to draw, mask and paint.

Here's the drawing on a quarter sheet, with all the facets and shapes of the colours drawn in

and here is the masking laid down to preserve the whites

the sky through the window is french ultramarine and the door a gold ochre. The shadows on the window and sill a a very weak wash of winsor green and alizarin crimson.

The deeper shadows are french ultramarine and alizarin crimson

and the tips of the feathers and body of the bird are gold ochre.
The base of the mirrored stand is a weak mix of the winsor green and alizarin crimson.

more to follow another day...

Stained Glass

In our previous house, we had a wooden door as an entrance door.
Many moons back we had a stained glass window made for the door.
The amount of work in stained glass is phenomenal.
Take a look here at The Stained Glass Guild.

We couldn't take our door or panel with us, so I did the next best thing, and painted a picture of the panel .

The Peacock