Painting material 'Cezanne style'.

I have been working on the cloth on the table. Painting cloth Cezanne style is fun. When I think about how carefully I usually blend in the colours when I usually paint material, and how I use very few hard lines or dramatic changes of colour... when painting Cezanne style its the complete opposite. You need definite brush strokes showing, heavy 'charcoal' lines and dark shadows. You also layer instead of blending colours waiting for each colour to dry before applying the next. There needs to be no real thought about shadow or direction of light either. In Cezanne's paintings it often looks as if the light could be coming from multiple directions. White materiel is especially fun to paint this way as although he leaves a lot of white paper showing he also uses many of the colours that appear in the rest of the painting.

So here is a close up of the material that I have painted in this style


and here is the painting's as it is now.


I should finish the material tomorrow and then it gets to the really fun part... bringing all my characters to life.

Ona