Day one: Draw rose based on a grid working on establishing appropriate proportions
Day two: Establish shadows with appropriate values by applying appropriate pressure and amount of pencil as needed. This lesson about values will carry through to many other future projects!
Day three (tonight): Apply complimentary colour over the darkest shadows in our picture then another layer of our first colour on top to create a final result that looks magically monotone. This is a marvelous experiment with what colour can do! Often, a person would think of using black to create dark shadows but here, the magic of layering colours that are complimentary (or opposite) creates a similar effect.
Check out the progress. Here is a purple rose with a layer of yellow to darken the shadows. The final layer of purple is still required for this one:
Some of our other samples, are still at different stages—
Here is blue only. Orange will be applied next. I see a wonderful understanding and application of a good variety of values here:
This student is using red and green rending a very powerful effect:
Here again is blue and orange. This one has all layers of colour applied. It's amazing how the shadows look like dark blue instead of showing orange and blue! This student has achieved the monochrome we were working for!
This courageous student tried something different. Instead of using complimentary colours, she used colours that were less opposite and closer to each other on the colour wheel. Here we see a reddish-purple and a turquoise. This was a fascinating experiment as we could see how the turquoise and purple created a deep blue and beautiful shadows. No monochrome but a gorgeous effect.
And here is where our lesson on values will help us. For next week... pencil paper bags!—
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