Hello, Steemit!)

Today I will show you a small picture made with oil paints on a round canvas. Previously, I had one drawing on this canvas, which eventually got terribly unpleasant for me, so I covered the canvas with acrylic soil over the image and decided to paint another picture on it.
The choice fell on my favorite topic «fish». I put on a picture a Japanese koi carps.

      First, I drew the contours of the drawing with a pencil.

I began to paint with the background - from the pebbles at the bottom of the pond. Mixed Indian yellow paint with cobalt blue and with translucent strokes gave the pebbles a rounded shape.

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With green grass color painted over the leaves of water lilies.

With the main colors by translucent stroke I painted over the fish.
Then left the picture to dry for a day.

When the picture has dried, i proceeded to deepening the shadows and giving the picture a contrast. I tinted dammar varnish with blue cobalt and translucently painted shadows on the stones.
Then gave the lily leaves the shape - light, bulging places painted over with a mixture of green and yellow colors, dark ones with an emerald color.

Then began to detail the fish. Prescribed the first fish in detail. I tried to paint with specks, imitating scales.

In the same way, I prescribed the second fish in detail.

At the final stage I finished the third fish, in some places I emphasized small details in the picture, shadows. I drew air bubbles on water. The picture is ready.

Thank you for attention!

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