Some of you will have the opportunity to paint this design in a color family of your choice next weekend in my Color Clock Class. It is important to play with color and shape. Forget about having a finished painting suitable for framing. You will never learn if you don't free yourself up to fool around for the pure fun of it. This is a step by step rendition of a simple design, It is Color Family #9 which is yellow, yellow-orange, orange, red-orange and red. Blue is the complement of the family. This may look easy but it takes alot of time and thought. I started with an original drawing, but as I used darker values in later stages of layering I made up the shapes.
This is the under-painting
Starting to define the shapes
Getting Closer but I need those important dark values
Finished!!!!! I fussed on the last steps. It is an intensely warm painting.
This is the under-painting
Starting to define the shapes
Coming along
Getting Closer but I need those important dark values
Finished!!!!! I fussed on the last steps. It is an intensely warm painting.
