Lesson 4
Look for photographs with light and shaded areas when you choose a photograph to work from. If you have a camera we encourage you to begin to take your own photographs. In this way you will be practicing good composition and lighting while making truly original works. Set up the paint area as shown on page five. Make a transfer to the watercolor sheet as shown on the previous page. Paint the picture, paying attention to shading on the objects and the shadows cast by those objects.
Student Gallery
MATERIALS
Tissue paper
Pencils
Watercolor palette
Jar of water
Brushes
Watercolor paper
Paper towels Artist’s tape
REFERENCES
Use a photograph that shows areas of light and dark. If you are interested in photography, we encourage you to use your own photos to paint from. Keep the following in mind:
Think of each object as part of the total group. Work in all areas of the painting. Don’t finish one object before starting another.
In this student work by Brenda Wright, cir. 1976, whites are made by painting an opaque white over the painted washes. Sometimes a tube of opaque white is supplied with a watercolor set. It is not transparent like the watercolors and will cover somewhat. It is one method of obtaining white in the painting. In the next unit, other methods of preserving the white of the paper are shown.
LOOK BACK! Did you observe shade on objects and shadow areas? Did you lower the value of colors by mixing darker colors with them?
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