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<\/a>A simple outline of this dainty lady with her parasol, face lifted to the sun, has all the shadowed area shaded in pale blue.\u00a0 We are all told that achieving pale colours in watercolour is to have a high ratio of water to pigment.\u00a0 The danger is that we have so much water swimming around that it becomes impossible to control.\u00a0 The answer is to mix your pale colour on the palette,\u00a0 remove excess water from the brush by resting it on a towel or tissue, then dipping it in the pale mix.\u00a0 It works – it’s taken me a long time to work out,\u00a0 but it has removed the hit and miss efforts of past years!<\/p>\nBy doing this, the light has been “saved”, as have areas where “true” colour is needed, but the shadows are in, and the picture already reads.\u00a0 Putting the colour on is sheer magic.\u00a0 Here she is, dancing down the steps.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n The Permanent Rose was washed over the whole of the skirt, and the light and shaded parts appeared without further effort.\u00a0 The steps, after their colour wash,\u00a0 had the shadows strengthened, and the dark background projects the figure forward.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It works for more complicated scenes, too.\u00a0 Here are a group of railway enthusiasts, cameras at the ready, as the locomotive approaches.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a re-run of last week’s session with my class.\u00a0 This is such an easy way of simplifying a given scene – taking one aspect of the image at a time. A simple outline of this dainty lady with her parasol, face lifted to the sun, has all the shadowed area shaded in pale … Continue reading “Light and shade again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>It doesn’t read as well as the lady, but I think it is clear enough, especially with a photo crib to introduce colour.<\/p>\n<\/a>Even is this unfinished state , the figures read well and you have time to devote to colour because the shadows are already worked out.<\/p>\n