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Jim Harris Talks About Illustrating…

The Iii Little Dinosaurs

"One time upon a time, in a thick steamy jungle, there lived iii little dinosaurs."

(Three lilliputian brachiosaurs, to be verbal.)

And as happens and then oft in these stories, the poor little 3-some has just been ejected from their dwelling past their darling mother and sent out to find new homes of their ain.

(Seems like I've heard this somewhere before.)

The showtime little brachiosaur isn't into heavy construction piece of work.  He would rather play video games.  So he piles up some dried grass, and presto… a firm!

Unfortunately this is the blazon of house that attracts the attention of the neighborhood bully.  In this instance, a T-Rex with a brain the size of a peanut.

At first the piffling dino harbors a hope that the thump thump thump on his front doorstep might be the pizza delivery human being… but no.  Information technology'due south the T-Rex.  And that's bad.

Pretty soon, the kickoff little brachiosaur is out on the street again, with nothing to his name just his TV.  (And peradventure his video game.)

Meanwhile, the 2d piddling dino has been negotiating with a Stegosaur for some mud bricks.

Steg'due south are pretty easy… and before long the second niggling dino has a load of yellowish bricks… and a page later… a very cool house.

Only one problem.  Seems similar the Stegosaur said something about waiting to use the bricks until after they were dried in the sun… but that seems similar such an insignificant item.  Too much for the second niggling dino to carp with, anyhow.  He'south busy pumping iron and reading muscle mags.

You lot know where this story is going… don't you.

Well, y'all probably do, except for one little particular.  I'm not going to give it away except to say that brachiosaurs are lizards and there is one fact about lizards you might have forgotten.

The T-Rex forgot information technology and information technology gave him a big surprise – just when he thought he was going to become three piggy-burgers for tiffin.

Oh, I forgot to tell you.  The not bad T-male monarch keeps calling the trivial brachiosaurs "piggies."  It makes them then mad they can't see straight.

But like I said, the piggies (I mean, the little DINOS) become the best of the T-king in the stop, and he never, e'er, calls them "piggies" over again.

Well, I really too have something to say about how I painted the illustrations for this book.

Painting with Oil and Acrylic Together

I painted them with oil and acrylic paints on  newspaper.  And that is a footling unusual.

Ordinarily we paint with oil on canvas, not newspaper.  And not too many people mix oil and acrylic paints.

Oil paint is my favorite medium.  It stays wet a long fourth dimension, so yous can accept your fourth dimension blending your strokes.  Also, information technology doesn't destroy your pigment brushes.  And information technology gives that warm, friendly oil-pigment look to the finished painting.

But oil paints have some problems, besides.  Specially for illustrators on tight deadlines.  Like I said, oils take a long time to dry.  Which isn't cool if yous're supposed to be Fed-Ex-ing your illustrations off the next morning!  Different oil colors dry at different speeds—a few might dry out in a day, just others take a week to be fully dry. (I in one case mixed the wrong solvent with some crimson oil paint and it stayed wet for well-nigh four years!)

So, sometimes I utilise acrylics instead.  They're pretty dainty paints, besides.  On the good side, they have vibrant colors, and boy, do they dry out quick!  In fact, you lot have to be careful not to clasp huge dollops of acrylic paint onto your palette if y'all're not going to use it right away… because if you walk away for too long… when you come back, all that expensive acrylic paint is dried upwardly similar a hunk of plastic and cipher you do to it will arrive come dorsum to life.  Merely … it'south helpful to have paint that dries that fast if you're painting something you have to postal service off in a jiffy.

On the downwardly side… acrylic paint is indeed just a special kind of colored plastic, and if you're not conscientious, your whole painting will look, well, like plastic.  It takes a lot of attending to brush strokes and color choices to get an acrylic painting to look soft and warm.

On The 3 Picayune Dinosaurs I used a special kind of oil paint that you mix with water (instead of stinky turpentine—which gives me a terrible headache) and when you're done painting… you can wash upwardly your brushes with h2o instead of turpentine, too.

Washing up.  That reminds me of another problem with acrylic.  Information technology's like ink… information technology eats brushes.  Ink has lacquer in information technology, which gets upwards in the paintbrush follicles—where the hairs are fastened to the paintbrush handle—and dries in in that location and and so the lacquer is so sharp-edged that information technology actually cuts through the hairs and they just fall off.  Very discouraging.

Acrylic does something similar.  Information technology dries upwardly in the follicles and in that location'southward no promise of ever washing information technology out… it merely sits in in that location and pushes against the hairs and makes them poke out at all sorts of funny angles… and your whole brush shape is ruined forever.  Makes you desire to cry…

Y'all can minimize this by remembering to wash out your paintbrushes as soon every bit you're done painting with acrylics… but you can never make this problem go completely away.

Simply dorsum to The Three Piddling Dinosaurs…  I painted most of each illustration with my special water-based oil paint. Then went back in and added the details in acrylic.

If you decide to try this technique, simply call up one thing.  Yous can ever paint oils on top of acrylics.  That works pretty well every time.   Simply yous can't paint acrylic on top of oils, unless you use h2o-based oils, like I do.  Trust me on that.  Don't even recollect about breaking this trusty little rule.  Unless you want to picket your whole painting slide off onto the tabular array one twenty-four hour period.

Well… I'one thousand supposed to be sketching out a new book today, so I'd amend get back to work.

Happy painting!

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