Painting the Floor in a Pet Portrait

"Next, let's take another one of our larger flat head brushes and let's put some red on here, raw sienna. Put that on there and some media. We're basically going to come up here and we're going to start to apply. It's going to be our carpet. We're going to have a red carpet with some yellow highlights in it. But first let's get a very nice strong base layer down. We're going all the way up here to the edge. Paintings are very much created in layers. Meaning you like to try to create the objects that are most distant from you first. Which is why we're tackling the carpet as opposed to the chair. See this chair leg and the chair here are in front of the carpet. And also in front of the wall for that matter. So first let's make sure we have a nice red carpet all along the bottom here. You can see like while these colors are faded, the gray of the dog is really going to stand out in a wonderful contrast despite the fact that it's gray. Essentially a black and white object. Now, as you're going through here you can also add some radiant lemon highlights as well that kind of lighten up certain parts of it. See that right in there, how much lighter that is? That makes the red a little more interesting than uniform red. Take anything, even something of the same color. It's much more interesting to have different highlights shooting through it than just a uniform bank. You can sometimes go for that effect but it's not the case here. So basically now we're going to extend this down on this side and then also on the other side of our dog before going on."