Shadow Pattern

How to Block in major shadows ?

Find the shadows in your setup, and lay the basic value pattern for your painting. A value pattern is the basic arrangement of darks and lights in a painting.

1. Look at the still life and note the direction of the light. Because you have a bright light shining on one side of the object, each object should have a light side and a darker side. Notice how only the change in lightness and darkness distinguishes one object from another. The edges of many of the objects are defined by the difference between how light or dark the object is and the lightness or darkness of whatever is behind it. Squint as you look at your setup to help you see the patterns of dark and light more easily.

2. Pick up the 1/2-inch brush, dip it into the solvent, and knock off the excess — but, this time, leave it fairly wet.

3. Pick up some of the gray wash you used for your initial sketch, and paint in the dark side of the egg, the cup, and the box (in that order).

4. Locate the shadow inside the cup and lay in that shadow as well. Notice how the shadow inside the cup is on just one side (the opposite side of the shadow on the outside of the cup). This indicates that the cup is empty.

5. Lay in the shadows cast by each object on the tabletop or any darkness in the background.

6. Back away from your canvas and take stock of your work.

This manner of creating a painting is called working general to specific. You establish all the big shapes and patterns first. Don’t get bogged down in painting details in the beginning stages of the painting. Or the middle stages. Working general to specific means that you start with all the big shapes and patterns of the composition, and with each layer of paint, the form of the objects becomes more defined. You think about how the whole composition is developing rather than concentrating on small areas.

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