At The Beach On An August Day

 

Lurie Garden

 

Our fearless leader in StarBucks (39 S LaSalle)

 

Ladies lunching in park next to Harold Washington Library

 

Harold Washington Library sketched by Sandra Beaty (3-17-22)

 

Pritzker Park...Near the HW Library

 
It was a lovely day to be outside sketching the library...

 

...and some of the people enjoying the park....

 

...or walking by.

Dan’s Zoom meeting 1/13/21

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StarBucks & the Art Institute

 

The Goddess and the Baker (Wacker & LaSalle)

Sketches by Mardy Kaufman

 

 Hi people,

Sorry to put the line feeds into the last listing.  I'll let blogger do it henceforth.

In looking at the ways of combining tint and tone, here is an example of another method.  This young woman was sketched in pencil first, with the pencil marks rubbed and shaded, then a little color was added.  She comes out very real. 

This was just a first attempt.  Doing it again, I'd omit shading from the tops of her shoulders and the tops of her hips.  Her outline was drawn first, then the inner lines and shading added, then the color.

I always get rid of the black paint that comes in every paint kit.  Never use it.  But a watercolor could have a tonal layer and a tint layer.  Since black paint is usually sedimentary, painting the tonal layer first will let you push it around a little when you paint the tint layer.

Painting the tonal layer second - adding a few shadows here and there to the tint layer - is also to explore.

Dan

Hi, everyone,

Here's the first scan off the new machine -  an image of that less-than-bright-but-extremely-natural Japanese paint from St. Louis Art Supply set off by a very small, very red, little bird.  All the brush strokes came out of a water-brush.

Since the bird is a little bit above the sand, not painting red where the little leaf crosses him suggests that he might be
perched on one of the rushes.   Rubbing the top  with a wet towel produced a flock of flying birds and a branch that
wanders off the paper out onto the page.   The smaller vertical stems in the background echo the larger stems in
the foreground, reinforcing a sense of depth.

Is nature really this colorless?   One could convert a palette to these colors by dripping a bit of pure black - or
black and indigo - into each of the paint cups of the palette, on top of the tint.  All at the right side of the paint cube,
so that you brush could pick up very grey paint or slightly grey paint.  You could fade from bright to earthy.

Given that the rest of the painting is so dark, the barely tinted area at center left shows a way these paints may be
used - to paint glare.

But good grief, nature has more color than this.  These dark tones make sense (to me) only as a background.

Corel has a "One-Stop Photo Shop" button in their image editor that could make this painting stunning.  You can
press the button several times.

Thoughts?

Dan

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