Moving right along, Elaine T. begins a painting of Flash Gordon (the Buster Crabbe incarnation) in the iconic scene where he's shoveling radium into King Vultan's furnace.
But lest you think watercolor is all fun and laughter, we assure you there is work involved! Here, as an example, Elaine T. does some color studies to determine the lighting for the painting above. Does she go with a suntan glow? Or does she have the subject lit with the radium green glow?
See what we mean about work? Elaine T. did this sketch to determine light sources, colors and effects. This is serious business!
Steve is also doing studies. He's painting the same scene, but with different triads. What's a triad? Using only three colors (generally three primaries like red, yellow and blue) to make up all the colors in the painting. Depending on which three colors you choose, the entire mood of the painting changes. Another benefit? You have a huge number of possible colors, but all of them are in perfect harmony. Come back next time for the next two triads in this series.
Speaking of moods and seasons, Elaine O. painted this winter scene looking out her Mom's front door. We couldn't decide if this should be her Christmas card or if she's seriously ahead of herself on the snow thing. We all agreed, however, that this looks like many of our mothers' neighborhoods, so we loved the nostalgia factor.
Sara is also in a retro/nostalgia mood, having finished her painting of her mother. We love it—the colors, the composition and the mood—but now Sara is thinking she might like to paint this again, but with a closer focus on her mother. We'll see!
From there, Sara moved on to this seasonal view out her front windows. Unlike Elaine O., though, she's in the right season, documenting the glorious changing foliage. Once again, the colors and composition steal the show.
Ken's latest cat is as colorful as they come. He's cleverly using color and shape to model the cat's fur and add texture. We love it and can't wait to see how it progresses—and we're not just saying that because Ken brought in corn muffins to celebrate the end of the term. They were delicious, with sun-dried tomatoes, black olives and two kinds of cheese. Yum!
We're also celebrating Gabby's graduation from "newbie" to "old master." Look at the piece below. She skillfully deploys concepts like complementary color and line to paint this portrait of two bananas nestled in a mountain of fabric. Looks very modern and "pop," doesn't it? Congratulations, Gabby!
You may be concerned after reading that we celebrated the end of the term. Don't worry! We start right up next week, so there will be no gap in the watercolor fun.
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