I needed to add darker values to my cabin interior painting. Greeta gave me a set of watercolor brush pens for my birthday and I thought that it would be good to use them to add value as they have strong values out of the box. Then you use a clear water brush to blend them in the painting. It’s 8 1/2 X 11 on cold press
Before:
After:
Got some more to do but happy with the direction I’m going.
Another look at adding value to my painting of me sitting with a sculpture in front of an art museum in Sarasota Fla. it’s 8 X 6 on Arches cold press
Still have work to do but it’s a start. Need to remove the maskit to see what needs to be done.
The beginning of an autumnal landscape of the lake outside my cabin in Michigan. It’s basically the first wash layer with some positional shapes. 11 X 14 on Yupo.
Darkness certainly helps the cabin room especially the dark of the wood of the furniture. Always glad to see you on yupo. Like the idea of just putting the paint on the (plastic) paper, letting it dry, and then going in again to move it around, and I guess there are several repeats of that process. Do you take a photo after every session? I think that would be interesting to you and to your fan base.
ReplyDeleteYes, I like the darker values in the wood, but I still feel like there are disparate elements floating in a lighter field. Maybe a darker glaze across all the background to make it unified and contast with the ray of light coming through the window. The added values work really well on your painting of you and your "friend." Already I can see where you're going with the landscape--and I like it.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at the cabin scene under the Noir setting in the color filter of your iPad you will see that your values are still generally light, except for the wood furniture. You need to go dark on those walls! Take Elaine’s advice!
ReplyDeleteYour revisited interior does look a lot better, but still needs some more work to bring it altogether, value-wise. You and your park bench friend are looking good so far. And so is the Yupo landscape.
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