This 24″ x 24″ painting is based on a crop of my design for the Maple Valley Arts show.

Unlike the 8″ x 8″, this painting uses a modern, hard edge style. The paint is very smooth and the colored regions are all flat shaded. To get this effect, I used a mixture of Gamblin Artist Oils thinned with Neo-Megilp. My brush was a number 10 Flat, Utrecht Series 207 Blended Bristle. I found this particular brush to be stiff enough to push the paint around to make hard edges, but soft enough to smooth out most of the paint ridges in the shape interiors.

I worked from dark to light. Process shots follow.