Sunday, April 4, 2010

Week Four..... A second color, Finally!









Today we finally brought out a second color onto our palettes. We used burnt umber for a dark tone and a light, naples yellow or yellow ochre mixed with titanium white, a warm light tone. Today's idea was to lay in the dark shadow shapes, and then with a different clean brush, go in and define the light areas. The results were somewhat graphic. Since we were only using 2 tones it forced us to really concentrate on edges. We also enjoyed an ease to make corrections by pushing paint, or cutting an area back. This happened especially in the negative space around the portrait. Exciting things were happening as artist were applying more paint. Our poses today were each 20 minutes. Many thanks to our wonderful model, Noreen Ignelzi!

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