Tutorial:Traditional Appaloosa

A walkthrough of how I did the appaloosa for Blond Ambition.

If you're like me and stubbornly resist buying specialty paper you can take care of wrinkling in the paper by ironing it. You will need a hard, flat surface (kitchen counters are an ideal choice). Start by laying the completely dried painting face down on the cleaned surface and laying a cloth over it (pillowcase, sheet, shirt, anything as long as it can protect your painting from direct contact with the iron). Make sure there are no wrinkles in the cloth so you don't iron any extra wrinkles or creases into the paper. Then you iron it the same as you would your clothes, making sure that the steam setting on the iron is turned off. It it unlikely to be perfectly flat after ironing if the wrinkling is really bad, but it will improve it greatly.


Tools used:
Acrylics
005 Millenium pen (any brand/size can work, the important thing is that the ink be waterproof)
Regular sketch paper