Out Wandering

Out Wandering/ oil on canvas on board/ 7 x 13/ SOLD

I started a new class. We began with values. My assignments this lesson included converting master paintings to grey scale, creating both a 5 and 9 value grey scale  and then taking photographs, simplifying them and assigning vales to the simplified images. With value on my mind, I worked on some of the problems I had been having with this little study and was delighted to find solutions,


Here are my value scales. Next post I'll show my source photo, value pattern and the study I did.

These were painted on old mat board on which I had applied quick layer of gesso. Not beautiful but cheap and it works.

Duck, Duck, Duck, Little Brown Duck

http://www.zazzle.com/joaquin_sorolla_y_bastida_after_the_bath_poster-228465346972568903

This is an image of a Sorolla painting that is from the page above.
The feeling of intense sunlight in this painting is wonderful.

I wanted this light effect in my recent painting "Duck, duck, duck, little brown duck"

Here is a version before I read an article by  Charles Sovek (link)  about the Sorolla's painting of light and color.

 This article reminded me that

Every object in light should be painted a middle-grey value or above

Every object in shadow is painted a middle grey value or below

Therefore, I adjusted lightened the  values of the shadows of the white ducks and darkened the values of the dark duck

Duck, Duck, Duck and Little Brown Duck/ oil on board/ 8 x 10/HH Gallery

I then increased the chroma of the water.

I like how the little ducks "glow" in this painting.