Painting Stone Window Frames

Hey there everybody, Joe here. Good to see you. I've got a short video to share with you here from my archives that I did a little while back. And it's real similar to the video I recently posted on how to paint rocks using gradients where I take pure black and make a dark line when I talk with my hands. It helps me visualize what I'm describing if I move my hands around while I talk. So you can see me doing the same technique that you watched the previous short video that I posted. But here's how I do it. I put a dark color on like black or some dark shadow color and then blend the colors of my rocks toward the middle of those dark lines intended to be the deep shadow between rocks. And so in this one, I'm making more geometric bricks as opposed to the more organic shaped rocks. But you can see how the technique works whether you're doing one or the other. Now, some important notes on this one was that I had to be careful about the perspective. The right edge and the left edge are always changing. You're in a hallway. You're looking at this picture on the wall. So if I show the right edge, then when you're standing on the left and you're seeing that right edge, it doesn't feel right. The perspective is off. So same for the left. If I paint the left edge, it only looks good if I'm at a real location where I expect to see that left edge. So on this one, I didn't paint the perspective of the edges that would maybe come off of the wall if those rocks were real. I tried to make it look three-dimensional from all angles by only using the gradients. And so there's depth to be created using gradients where my midtones come out of that dark black shadow just because of the gradient change, not because of any particular shape or angle. So I'm working with deeper, shallower, deeper, shallower effect as opposed to perspective like this where you can see one edge, you can see a different edge. So we can do geometry to make depth. But in this one, it was better just to stick with darker means deeper, lighter means closer to. So I just used shadows so that it could look decent from all angles. And for that reason, I didn't choose to make the look of rocks that come far off the wall just a little because then there's more forgiveness and you know, there's more... What is the right way to say it? I can't say it. I just won't. It just doesn't matter. I think you get the point. I'm hoping it's helpful. You know, it's a fun technique, very helpful technique to do some quick decorative work around an area like this. Thanks for watching my video. I'll talk to you later.