A Painting A Day

Worked on color values today. For the very first time, I started off too dark! Amazing! I rarely do that. But it was so much easier to make the colors lighter than it was to make them darker.

A pumpkin is an interesting thing to paint. There are so many colors in it. It took me a while to make it actually look like a pumpkin. Also the colors in the silver pitcher were so vibrant that there was very little silver at all it. The light was at a strange angle, leaving the pitcher in shadow and the pumpkin was a little back lit.

I'm learning so much in Sue Foell's class. I hope that I can get faster, and learn more how she uses an economy of brush strokes.