"Tammy's Rose" ~ Gum Layer 4

This print layer was a split color application, using Raw Umber in a fairly thin mixture over the subject's dress, and a mixture of Yellow Ochre & Phthalo Blue to realize a light green laid over the darker background to strengthen it and separate it further from the mid-ground of the light colored grasses, from the subject as the highlight of the image. The background is a cool deep color with the foreground warm and brilliant with light. Rose Permanent was mixed to a good red and laid over the rose in Tammy's hands, and on a small bud on a rose branch behind her.

The objectives I had for the print have been attained, with the separation of tonal values using color and light, controlling the highlights as the focus of the image, using colors that infer and shape without being evident or gaudy. There remains the yellow dichromate stain, seen mostly on the dress. The final color layer will be quinacridone gold, mixed oh so sheer to retain the golden glow of the afternoon sunshine. The background has been strengthened and further separated from the subject as well as the dried grasses in the mid-ground. The subject in the foreground is the lightest element in the scene, with her hair right at zone 7.

Gum over Palladium ~ Layer 4 ~ Three colors
Yellow Ochre mixed with Phthalo Blue for a light green ~ Rose Permanent (for the rose)
"Tammy's Rose" 8x10