Let's talk Real Estate, Afghan Style

 

steps one and two 

chocolate brown base coat with medium brown dry-brushed over it

       Having finally gotten the hill to my liking I decided to have a go at painting the village that was the source of this whole project. The buildings were coated with the ever-present chocolate brown and then a heavy dry-brush of the same medium brown that I used on the hills. In all the photos that I have seen of Afghani villages they seem to be exactly the same shade of brown as the surrounding terrain. Next was the light tan highlights (a good bit heavier a dusting than than hills got) followed up by a thorough dusting of pale gray. Tomorrow I will go back and add white highlights and a few touches of color. All that remains is the other panel with the riverbank and irrigation canals and poppy fields.

 

for one brief moment I considered stopping right here

 

but then I tried the highlights on the little building

 

and I liked it so much that I added it to all of the others

 

all this drybrushing has been hard on my brush collection,

 the casualty rate is beginning to look like Pickett's Charge!

 

fortunately further work will be much more narrowly focused 

and is unlikely to kill any brushes