Adaptive Art Show

Bellevue East First Annual Adaptive Art Show!

She was so excited to show off her work.

more to come

http://kathyjurek.blogspot.com/2010/10/month-of-pumpkins-day-19-get-free-print.html

You won't see me for a little while because I will be working on a commission project but thought I'd guide you to another artist with a great give away (see above link and pic).  She's been doing a pumpkin a day for the month of October.  She's my fovorite watercolorist. go check out her pumpkins.

grey feather

Building layers

This layer actually has Pumpkin orange in it.

Refining Values

Now we get into the Dk. Green, Black Cherry and Indigo Blue

Burnished

This was a quick study.  I think it only took me about 5 or 6 hours. Does it look like a grey feather?

The main colors used were Black Grape, Indigo Blue,  Goldenrod, Dioxazine Purple, Pumpkin Orange, Dr. Green, and Black Cherry. The highlights had some Greyed Lavender, Slate Grey, Sky Blue Light and White. The linear strokes in this made it go faster than the very small circle strokes to build  color. All in all I'm pleased.

Feather

Establish Values

I know I said I was going to go off on my own and get away from these studies but I looked at the rest of them and there is a lot to keep learning.  I'm still going off on a project of my own but not ready to post anything yet.

Deepen Values

This is a study from "Masterful Colors" on how to get greys with out using grey pencils.

Define Edges

This is different from the other studies because you build color using linear strokes instead of small circular strokes.

Eggs in a bowl

Pushing Values.

Getting some more reds in the tablecloth has helped.

Adding Highlights and Darks

I'm getting happy about the bowl.  But this is the step everything starts to go downhill.  putting blush pink in the shadow of the tablecloth has to be a typo cuz it looks like crap! The eggs lost their farm fresh look .

Saturate and burnish.

The bowl is still coming along nicely. I've lost too many of my whites in the weave but I've fixed what I could of the blush pink in the shadow.

Finishing Touches
All in all this turned out better than I thought it was going to even though it took a lot longer than I anticipated. I'm not happy with the tablecloth weave and wish I would have been a little more carful with the oval of my eggs and some hard edges in their shadows but it's a learning experience.  Next I think I might steer away from my book and see if I can apply these techniques to an original project!