An Artist's Guide to Plein Air Painting Oct. 2015 | Page 28

P a g e | 27 STEP 4 BLOCK IN THE LIGHTEST SHAPES Now onto the lights. You may want to use a different brush for the light family colors. This is a matter of choice. If you use the same brush as for the darks make sure that you clean it off well with tissue paper and rinse off with white spirits. Titanium white broken with a touch of yellow ochre will do the job nicely. Figure 14 Block in the lightest lights An Artist’s Guide to Plein Air Painting Malcolm Dewey