I first airbrushed the white underpainting for this job, the camera overexposes colors so you may have to use your imagination sometimes. Here I add color to the mural, mostly candies and transparent yellows. I first lay down a mixture of red and yellow real loose to get the background flames. I covered up the mural with some clear masking tape and then layed the background in the orange and then I put some candy apple red over the orange to give it dept.
This is kind of hard to see, but I put orange down again and then airbrush candy tangerine over the flames again, this builds depth. Here is the flames after the tangerine candy. See how the flames are being pushed back? Now I take bright yellow and put more flames in, but I don't cover the flames that I have already done. Since the paint is transparent, you can see the flames all the way to the bottom. You want to build depth. Now I put tangerine candy over the "low parts" of the flames.
Now I go over most of the flames with Pagan Gold Candy, this really makes the colors glow. It look so much better in person than it does in these pictures.
Now I mix up some white/yellow mixture. This really pops over the under colors. These are the hot spots.
I pull back the clear masking and using candies, blend the art into the background and get rid of any paintlines that may have built up. Now I mix up some SG100 and some red/blue pearl and paint the ends of the flames, these pop when light hits them but are invisible otherwise.