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Watercolour of Yate, 15" x 11" on Saunders Waterford Rough 300 gms.
Probably on the face of it, a boring subject, the entrance off a main road to a town centre car park, but it's got the main elements of a watercolour painting with a bit of light and shade, some action with shoppers and a couple of cars coming and going. I maybe introduced a bit more shade than existed in reality, but it needed it in the background against those buildings and across the foreground.
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Great painting and love the shadows. How do you decide what color to use for your shadows?
Posted by: ron bigony | Aug 22, 2014 at 03:44 PM
Hello Ron. For shadows I would look at the colour of the object the shadow falls across. I would look for a warm or cool shadow (maybe add cobalt for a cool shadow). Or sometimes the shadow may take on the colour of any reflected objects nearby. I would add neutral tint to get a really dark shadow but mixed in with something else so that it's not too dead looking
Posted by: Tim | Aug 22, 2014 at 05:11 PM