Turn on the Night, CandP Watercolor class, November 3, 2009

Instead of bats in your belfry, try birds in your chandelier.  Messy but cheerful.

11/3/09 CandP Watercolor class, 2nd class

1. Review and look at work.....clouds....page 86-87.....look at photos.... shapes and values. 
Look at flowers...match values, look at grey scales...squint!  Show how a sweep of cobalt blue can  unify the petals...look at page 21.  Format is off...explain. Show all the colors in white...the lilies, the clouds.  Look at pigment chart....Why shouldn’t you use stains as glazes unless very diluted......add  all Quinacridone colors to stains list.  Show leaf chart.

1.New Students... Review color wheel.. Page 15..warm and cool, primaries, secondaries and tertiaries......make your own color wheel mixing pthalo blue, alizarin crimson and azo or aureolin yellow  ONLY. Re-read 6-15 Carefully!

Here is a very rough study of Pat Robinson's beautiful photograph of lilies.  I substituted a greenish blue at the end...ran out of manganese!  This is to show how a sequence of glazes can define form.  Think of the gathering of lilies enclosed in a transparent dome.  Each time you ad a glaze, leaving the top brightest petals unpainted, the furthest lily petals recede in space.

 

  




 

2. Night Moves for Old hands..... READ DIRECTIONS ALL THE WAY THROUGH FIRST!   Work on two 1/8 pieces and work back and forth. Do two night scenes..for # 1...follow Jan Hart’s book, page 23, step by step and substitute alizarin crimson for quinacridone magenta. . 

On #2, use medium value (check with tab) wash of pthalo blue for night sky but skip areas for a  white moon and some stars.(Show my examples.)Analyze  Negative space.

 When dry, go back and add a mountain range and put in a darker ground      Mix some alizarine crimson and pthalo blue  for a purple and add some lunar black.   Start lighter and  paint in tree skeletons.  (show tree shapes) When they dry, overpaint some more Larger trees with a darker value of same aliz. crimson, pthalo blue and lunar black.  Lay the pigment in with water and let the pigment travel.  Work deliberately...this is a two class assignment.
 

4. New Students..... Sketch a leaf on one of your papers .    Think of negative space. (show leaf example) lightly draw five minutes only!........using primaries to get all your colors....start very light..  Work back and forth.  Don’t work wet on wet this time...use glazes, ie., a yellow azo over a dry pale blue pthalo to get green, or a very pale thalo blue over a dry azo yellow. All the primaries ( a mix of complements is the same)would give you a neutral (ie., brown or grey or black)

Again, I'm placing my interior painting because I want you to think about the underglaze...auroelin yellow....and how it can affect any glaze that goes over it. 

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