Demonstration
Up-Somborne Red Telephone Box
Step 1
Draw the composition with a pencil, making sure that the proportions are as accurate as possible. Look carefully at the lines of the box’s window and door construction; hardly any of them are straight. The display boards are also slanting. I decided to add flags, as they were hanging on my second visit there.
Step 2
Use a ruling-drawing pen to place masking fluid where the light catches the construction of the telephone box, the flags, the books at assorted angles, the notices in the windows, the displays on the two notice boards and the window at the back.
Step 3
1 Paint the box construction using cadmium red and an orange mix for the lighter right-hand side.
2 Use a mixture of Winsor blue, olive green and alizarin crimson to add the back wall, display boards and deeper shadows and reflections on the box. Use another wash over the first after it has dried to intensify the darker areas.
Step 5
1 Using your coloured pens and/or pencils try out various crosshatching and assorted lines and colours to form foliage around your box, on the ground and trees.
2 Now wash over to soften the markings to form shadows and sun-lit areas.
3 Place more markings with your pens or pencils over the watery and dried areas, if more detailing is needed.
4 Rub off the masking fluid to expose the details of white paper.
Step 6
For the final stage, paint over the white exposed details. Place the lettering on the telephone box. Keep the colours lighter on the left-hand side of both the box and foliage, to highlight the box’s features and purpose.
Step 4
Apply an orange mix with a little blue onto the back house wall then add your own choice of colour to the flags, books and notice board. Place cerulean blue wash for the sky.