
Saturday, August 30, 2008
A lesson in color.

Still life.

My teacher gave me these reminders for how to do a small still life, 6" x 8" using acrylics:

set up at least two objects; they should overlap each other slightly. Shadow areas on objects should be made up of the local color of the object. For example, the red of an apple plus a small amoung of the complement of red. The cast shadow and object shadow should be two different values. He told me to "think composition": the main object should not be in the center of the page. Above is a picture of what I was looking at, and here's what I did:

Labels:
acrylics,
cast shadow,
object shadow,
shadows,
still life
Self portraits.

Labels:
self portraits,
straight lines,
using charcoal
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