Grocery Bags Finished Update
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At top above is the finished update with color balanced and added details. I always think you should be able to see into the dark shadows of a painting so I've lightened those shadow areas and warmed up the cool shadows to adjust the ambient light.
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Monday, April 23A lot of people have asked me to do more demos, so I’ll shoot a few photos of this one as I go.
The paper bag painting is an assignment I give to beginning painting students. Why?, because it forces one to see color in something that we don’t think of as having much color. I usually don’t have students work this one on a colored ground but I decided to use blue here as a contrast to the warm tones in the bag. The highlights will immediately pop out and give a contrast to the ground. I decided on the 6in. x 6in. format for this one because there was too much dead space in the composition at 5in. x 7in.
Photo one is the conte drawing on the blue ground and photo two is my first layer of rough color to see where the contrasts need to go. There is still a lot of work to do on this one since there are so many facets or planes in a wrinkled paper bag. Each plane picks up light from a different direction so the colors change a lot from one surface to the next. I’ve got my work cut out for me on this one.
Keep watching and see where it goes.
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