Your Private Art Lesson with...
Peggy Dressel Utilizing the
Jan Kunz
Techniques
Pastel
Artist-Watercolor Painter and Teacher
Your Watercolor Painting Lesson is "Using Color's
Temperature to Enhance White"
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Step#1-Surfaces Facing the
Sky
Onto cold pressed water color
paper, sketch a poppy.Paint a very pale wash of 'new gamboge'
on the vertical surfaces that receive direct light. Paint heavier
at the tips of the petals to give shape.
Step # 2- Surfaces Reflecting
the Sky
Paint flat areas that reflect
the sky, or the petals that turn away from the light, with a
pale wash of 'cobalt blue'. The petal in front faces the sun
on it's top edge and then turns under to receive the 'cooler'
color of other sky reflecting surfaces. The heart of the flower
is given a darker color.
Step#3-Shadows Casted
Mix a mid value of 'cobalt
and a bit of Winsor blue' to paint the shapes that have shadows
from the light. Be sure to use enough paint to cover the 'entire'
area of the shadow. Then, while still wet,use a 'dab' or 'charge'
a bit of 'new gamboge and rose madder into the shadow. Let the
'mixed' color seek its own place. Paint center a heavier mix
of 'new gamboge & rose madder' and shadow it with a deep
highlight.
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Step#4-Final Darks and
Details
The petals have wrinkles
that are brought out by using a mid value of 'cobalt blue'. The
same can be done for 'shapes' within shadowed areas. Then darken
the areas of the 'cast shadows. The last item is the deepest
center of the flower, use a deep tone for that edge.
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That's Charging! Good
Work!
For more information
about guest teacher/artist Peggy Dressel, please
contact barry@liebermanart.com or call (201) 337-0006.
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