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Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #49 Light to Dark
As the old saying goes "April showers bring May flowers" and I know many of my students love painting flowers, plants and gardens. Get those cameras ready for the blossoming trees that usually only last
about a week, and take loads of pictures. Flowers and plants are also an excellent way to learn how to paint in watercolor along with developing an understanding of negative painting.
Next week I head to Minnesota for a 3 day workshop along with a demonstration at the Hopkins Center for the
Arts. No classes next week at The Studio or in Libertyville. I also will not be able to make the Lakes Region Watercolor Guilds meeting. This week's newsletter goes into the procedure of painting light to dark when painting a close-up scene compared to a landscape scene. There is still time to get 20% off your first year. Artwork
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YES we are having Class this Thursday at the Civic Center in Libertyville. No Class next week YES we are having Class this Saturday at The Studio in McHenry. No Class next week
David 90% of the paintings I create in watercolor, the process is back to front and light to dark. This is usually the steps in painting a landscape. Then there are those times where we can't paint in that order, that usually is the case with portraits, still lives and night scenes. Those scenes you don't paint back to front because the backgrounds in those instances are
usually darker then the foreground. In watercolor, it just makes sense to always paint light to dark.
A very important reason for working light to dark is that you can always paint a dark over a light and that helps when you paint large areas which holds the value pattern together along with giving the painting some color harmony,
My mentor, Irving Shapiro would always tell us that the painting goes through the ugly stage in the beginning
when you are putting in the lights and middle tones, then it turns beautiful when you add the darks, which are usually what creates the shapes and details in a painting. Don't judge the look of your painting until the end results.
Click on video to watch me paint Light to dark.
Here is another example of having to paint the front first and the background after I finished the swan in front.
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Each week I will be bringing you an artist that I admire and that amazes me. I hope these artist's will amaze and inspire you to keep on painting and develop your own style as much as they inspire me.
Thomas W. Schaller Speaking of painting light to dark, check out how well
Schaller uses his lights and darks and from back to front to compose his beautiful paintings.
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