for our meerkats, we're going to have to takeit in two different steps. first off, we need to paint the rockery, and we're going to needto let that dry, and then we'll paint the meerkats on top of it. so, let's get our paintready, and we're going to start filling in this area. so let's dip our brush in and geta nice big dollop of paint; making sure that the paint's not dripping too much from offoff the brush, or at least you have a good drop cloth down. if you're kind of sick andtired of some of the detail work we've been doing, the rocks are very excellent therapy,cause' we're just going to basically plaster this with a nice matte; very, very light brown,maybe a touch of purple and pink in here, with some pink-red highlights to basically,kind of go back over the edges. i'm not even
worried too much about the rocks shape atthis point, because they'll be very easy to rediscover underneath the paint. of course,you can leave these a little bit thinner if you're worried about making sure the, wherethe lines are. otherwise, just go to town and slop it on. make a nice thick coat. we'regoing to try to definitely avoid having to put on two coats here, because you don't haveto do a lot of the detail work which can make the paint smear. so again, just keep expandingup from the central area, and once you get towards the top of the rocks, like up in here,you may choose to like get a, you know, a smaller brush to get more of the detail onhere. usually the rocks are a little bit bumpy and lumpy, so actually, unlike most of therest of the painting, i find myself remaining
comfortable with a bigger brush, even towardsa lot of the edges. now you could actually get up here higher, where you start gettinginto the feet in the meerkat details. i may go down a brush to make sure i don't accidentallypaint over the feet, cause i only want to be, make sure i can still see those lineswhen i do move to paint the meerkats later on. so you're going to continue this throughout,and you're going to let it dry, and then we're also going to add in some pink highlights,which i will demonstrate next.
