WED MORNING WATERCOLOURS STILL LIFE

I think today's lesson was a little too difficult, there was an awful lot of detail, I think perhaps I should have stuck to the lemons and demonstrated just that, but here is your reference if you would like to carry on with it.

Below are the lemons at Brown's cafe' in Cambs which inspired me.

SAWSTON, BLOCKING IN COLOUR SHAPES

A COLOUR OR TONE SHAPE MEANS BLOCKS OF COLOUR OR TONE THAT ARE SIMILAR TO EACH OTHER, ABOVE  IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE SHADOW ON THE BALL AND TABLE BEING ONE TONE SHAPE.

THE EXAMPLE ABOVE IS THE NEAGTIVE SHAPES ( The bits in-between ) MAKING 1 TONE SHAPE THAT DESCRIBES THE POSITIVE SHAPE, THE FIGURE, BUT NOTICE THAT THERE AREN'T ANY OUTLINES BETWEEN ONE OBJECT AND THE OTHER. THAT'S BECAUSE THE SHADOW UNITES THE OBJECT AND THE BACKGROUND.

AFTER WE HAD WORKED OUT THE PROPORTIONS, WE DREW OUR PLANT PLUS VASE, AND BLOCKED IN THE COLOUR SHAPES, BY GENERALIZING ALL THE GREENS, THIS LAID THE FOUNDATION OF MOVING ON TO PAINTING THE SMALLER COLOUR SHAPES WITHIN THE FOLIAGE.

THIS EXAMPLE IN BLACK AND WHITE SHOWS HOW TO ADD COLOUR SHAPES RATHER THAN OUTLINE EACH LEAF, OUTLINES RARELY EXIST IN LIFE, SO WE DON'T REPRESENT THEM IN DRAWING UNLESS THAT IS OUR INTENTION.

DRAWING AND MIXED MEDIA SEEING NEGATIVE SHAPES

DRAWING PROPORTIONS OF FLOWERS AND VASE

SHADING IN THE  NEGATIVE SHAPES, MEANS FILLING IN THE DARKER BACKGROUND SHAPES TO CREATE THE LIGHTER FOREGROUND SHAPES