Fall 20016 Acrylic Class Week 7

Acrylic Class Project: Pumpkins on Parade Week 3

This week I finished adding all of the pumpkins and started working on the light and shadow detail. 

This is the time to adjust the shapes of your pumpkins and angles before you start getting into the more complicated details.

Be very aware of the shapes of the light and dark. this not only shows the angle of the object (which way the pumpkins is tilted for instance), it also shows you the curves of the segments.

Look at the reference photo and really study it BEFORE you paint to see where the light is and what the shapes are, this is how you become a better painter.

I used my #4 flat bristle brush and my #4 flat sable when I needed more control.

The little white pumpkin isn't actually white/white it is mostly shades of a soft blue/gray (ultramarine white and a touch or sienna). To make it darker use less or o white and add tiny touches of purple or blue and alizarin crimson to purple the color up a bit.

The lighter yellow fairy pumpkin is white with a touch of cad yellow and a touch of some mud from your palette (for you clean freaks, add just a tiny smidgen of purple or UM blue with alizarin, just enough to gray the yellow) for the base color of this pumpkin then more of the purple or blue and alizarin to darken the color for the shadows. I was working wet into wet when I was under painting this pumpkin.I was using my #4 flat bristle.

We only have a couple more weeks for this project so I hope that you can get caught up to where I am in class. Please do not worry about the detail of the pumpkins until you get your light and shadow established, then you can work on the fun stuff.

Keep painting and I will see you in class.