Hi Laurie- your apple has such beautiful form!! The color selection and saturation are wonderful! The highlights and the dark toning in the well are also great! I would expect to see a shadow from the stem coming out of the well and curving up on the right side. I think your cast shadow could continue up the side a little, but what is there so far looks really good. Nice tone and it fades away as it should. Great job!!!!
Hi Doug, Thank you for the helpful comments. I will make those adjustments. I used Stonehenge Aqua Hot Press- for the first time. I had trouble with the color lifting off of the paper in several places. I burnished with the ivory pencil and added more layers of yellow, green, and indigo on top of that. Is there a point when you can put on too many layers and this happens- where the pigment starts to come off the paper? I am new at all of this- but did not have this happen on the Fabriano Artistico paper. I don’t know if it was caused by the paper or something I did? Would appreciate your thoughts. Thank you!
07 January 2021
Hi Laurie, yes, you’re totally right–there is a point of saturation on this paper when things start to lift away or tear. Just keep that in mind, and try to build your layers very slowly so that you aren’t pressing very hard until the very end of the drawing. This is a gorgeous drawing.
Hi Laurie – your build up of layers looks so great – rich like an oil painting on panel. Lovely to look at. I might tone down the upper right highlight a bit – I think it distracts me a bit and my eye jumps back and forth too quickly.
Hi Laurie- your apple has such beautiful form!! The color selection and saturation are wonderful! The highlights and the dark toning in the well are also great! I would expect to see a shadow from the stem coming out of the well and curving up on the right side. I think your cast shadow could continue up the side a little, but what is there so far looks really good. Nice tone and it fades away as it should. Great job!!!!
Hi Doug, Thank you for the helpful comments. I will make those adjustments. I used Stonehenge Aqua Hot Press- for the first time. I had trouble with the color lifting off of the paper in several places. I burnished with the ivory pencil and added more layers of yellow, green, and indigo on top of that. Is there a point when you can put on too many layers and this happens- where the pigment starts to come off the paper? I am new at all of this- but did not have this happen on the Fabriano Artistico paper. I don’t know if it was caused by the paper or something I did? Would appreciate your thoughts. Thank you!
Hi Laurie, yes, you’re totally right–there is a point of saturation on this paper when things start to lift away or tear. Just keep that in mind, and try to build your layers very slowly so that you aren’t pressing very hard until the very end of the drawing. This is a gorgeous drawing.
Thanks for explaining this to me- very helpful!
Hi Laurie – your build up of layers looks so great – rich like an oil painting on panel. Lovely to look at. I might tone down the upper right highlight a bit – I think it distracts me a bit and my eye jumps back and forth too quickly.