Finished piece framed in white wood.

Art: Lago di Como, 3 (step by step)

The final piece in the series of Lake Como poster art that I’m painting with acrylic paint markers.

This is a flowery balcony overlooking the lake and coastline under a grey sky.

Finished piece, dated and signed in thin black ink, next to the 15 markers I used.

The final result.

I used 15 acrylic paint markers, including the white to delineate snow on mountains on the horizon, and mark villages on the green hills.

The size of the painting is 8.5 x 12.5 cm.

It took me 4 hours to complete.

An entire hour was spent choosing the right colors among the 60 markers that I have.

Step by step

Loose pencil sketch on textured watercolour postcard. The outline marks a bush of flowers in the foreground and where the land it around the lake.
Preparatory sketch on a sheet of regular printing paper where I tried out many of my paint markers which are scattered around the pages on the wooden table.
Two shades of warm grey for the sky
Two shades of pale blue for the mountains and white for the snow
Pastel light green and medium blue for the middle-ground mountains
Two shades of blue for the lake
Three shades of green for the land
Two shades of pink and red for the flowery bush in the foreground, white marks on the land to suggest villages.
The back of the postcard where I painted small rectangles of the colours I used and their reference number.
The three pieces in the series, framed, and propped against the reflective surface of my piano
The framed three postcards in the series of Lake Como poster art interpretation

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