This past week i worked a bit at home on the shapes of the rocks in the small waterfalls. Also repainted and tried to fix the big rocks. Definitely a work in progress! Today in class i wanted to play with the colors of the water at the bottom of the painting — the area that will be the focal point. Teacher (Ed) suggested i just try working from the perimeter inward, starting with darks, moving to mid-tones and then having the bright spot in the center. I spent most of the class on this assignment and feel like I’ve made some progress, but still need to do quite a bit to get it to “work” like i want it to.
In other news, i have dropped out of the “tracing” class. I’ll give details maybe in my next post — but bottom line is that i realized from something that happened in my “regular” (Thursday) class a few weeks ago that there were probably irreconcilable differences between the two teachers’ approaches, and that i would be better off staying with my original class.
Anyhow, here’s photo of my work from the “calm water” painting.
LJ and NJ 