BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter October 13th

Published: Tue, 10/13/15

Hello 

Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #24

The best thing about autumn for a painter like myself is that I no longer have to deal with all vegetation being green. In the summer, everything is so green, this is the reason if I go to photograph scenes to paint or go plein-air painting, I try to get up very early or watch the sun go down in the evening to catch the long shadows. Having a good like and dark pattern usually makes up for everything being the same shade of green.
Below are a few examples of summer, fall pictures, showing how different a season makes.

Today I talk about creating depth in a painting by using simple cubes to illustrate my points.

Coming in November I will be in an exhibit with 2 of my friends Lucy Tonyan and Gary Wigman, at The Palette and Chisel Gallery, more info in the coming weeks.

There WILL be class this Thursday in Libertyville and on Saturday at The Studio in McHenry!

Cheers!
David


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Depth in your painting
3 easy steps to a better understanding about creating depth in a painting.

In the first image below we have a black and white watercolor and the simplest way to created depth is to overlap objects. By negative painting in a dark background, this will help in creating the shape of the boxes.
No color in this picture so you don't get the advantage of using color to create depth.

This next image below uses color to create another way to show depth.
More intense colors come forward while gray or muted colors fall to the back.

In this next image below I created soft edges and also forces the perspective and upped the contrast a little to create even more depth. 

When using a photograph to design a composition and the photograph does not show some of these devices for creating depth, I suggest you take it upon yourself to use these depth devices to make your painting have more depth.

See if you can find how I created depth in the painting below.

I used perspective, overlapping, color and contrast. The only device I didn't use very much was soft edges.

I go more into dimensions in my classes using the PECOC (PEACOCK) method
Perspective
Edges
Contrast
Overlap
Color

Another good reason to take one of my workshops!

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Found this on the web and thought this may help us learn to take better photos.
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