CALDERA TAP HOUSE, PART 3

Well, if you've been reading my blog recently you'll know I'm working on the painting of the Ashland Amber label for the inside of the new Caldera Tap House in Ashland, Oregon. It's amazing how long it takes to paint something like this. After finishing all the green leaves, I think I need to go back in and make the yellow veins a little narrower, which can be done by painting into them a little bit with the green paint. The tricky part will be the orange to red fade for the sunset sky above the mountain. Someone suggested I just paint a solid orange up to the banner (see original image below for reference), and then paint red above the banner, which is probably what I'll do. This housepaint stuff just doesn't blend well at all, and with the uneven surface of the wall it'd be very hard to pull off an even fade.