We looked at a simple sphere on a surface to specifically look at the skills of:
- Depth
- Perspective
- Proportion
- Tonal Range
- Shadows and Highlights
We also looked into the process of painting from thin to thick and dark to light
We started by COLOUR BLOCKING our tones in (either a warm of cold undertone to add depth). We did this by adding our gel medium to thin out our paints
- Use colour theory to sort your base colours - cool tones look far away, warm tones look closer to you. You are an illusionist with painting. - Once you have your base colours down, then you need to determine where the lights are and where the shadows are. NEVER use black paint at this point. If you really need it, use it at the end of your painting process, to strengthen the darkest areas only if necessary.- To mix a 'block' colour or dark shadow colour, look at the paints you have and select the darkest hues from opposite sides of the colour wheel and a tiny bit of yellow. That will usually result in a good dark tone.
You don't need every colour in the universe on hand to paint, just the basics: red, yellow, blue, a nice clear purple helps (or magenta) and white.
Build your paint up and paint with thicker paint than you would if you were using watercolour. less water and less paint is actually what you need. too much paint and you wont be in control. Same with too much water.
You will be looking to build up careful layers, so if it's not quite right, so long as you haven't used too much paint underneath, you should be fine:
Remember to keep all your experiments as these will count as your evidence
