Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Lesson 3: Value


Today Megan started off by mixing 2 blues: cobalt and ultramarine. Next she created a varied palette by adjusting the value of the mixture by adding black and white to varying degrees. From there she proceeded to paint a quick value study of one of the objects in the still life collection.

After the demo I worked from a photo I took while in England, one of the woodsy canals. I like the compostion but am not yet happy with the colour and brushwork. Here it is:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

looks very interesting what you are doing here Hennie. I hope we can get together for a good old chinwag about it after you get back.
Sally