E.Q. What is it that makes a painted image believable?
Representational paintings are actually illusions. Two dimensional interpretations of a three dimensional world. You are about to take up the challenge of creating those illusions. Here we ill work with the image of a lemon as a simple subject to illustrate some basic principles behind the illusion of depth on a 2 dimensional picture plane.
On a 9"x12" sheet of WC paper, your will do three drawings of a lemon representing its 1. shape, 2. form and 3. tone using pencil following the instruction in the document below.
Also on that page, you will paint two depictions of a lemon using watercolor to capture its light and shade from 4. overhead light source and 5. a low angle of light.
Finally on a half sheet of WC paper (6" x 9") you will paint the final lemon either from life, or from a photograph capturing its highlights, reflected light, and color following the instructions on the second page of instructions.
You should be able to define the following vocabulary from the instruction sheet...
l
ocal color
reflected color
modeling
tone
cast shadow
form
reflected light
highlights
tone
shape
form
Representational paintings are actually illusions. Two dimensional interpretations of a three dimensional world. You are about to take up the challenge of creating those illusions. Here we ill work with the image of a lemon as a simple subject to illustrate some basic principles behind the illusion of depth on a 2 dimensional picture plane.
On a 9"x12" sheet of WC paper, your will do three drawings of a lemon representing its 1. shape, 2. form and 3. tone using pencil following the instruction in the document below.
Also on that page, you will paint two depictions of a lemon using watercolor to capture its light and shade from 4. overhead light source and 5. a low angle of light.
Finally on a half sheet of WC paper (6" x 9") you will paint the final lemon either from life, or from a photograph capturing its highlights, reflected light, and color following the instructions on the second page of instructions.
You should be able to define the following vocabulary from the instruction sheet...
l
ocal color
reflected color
modeling
tone
cast shadow
form
reflected light
highlights
tone
shape
form
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