I finally had some time to play with my new neocolors II today. I really had no idea how to use these, so I just started to play. What I really wanted to do was to make it look painterly. So I started with a simple sketch of a pear. Its such a simple shape, but can be so interesting to me. Then I used scarlet neopastel as the underpainting for the pear(except I used yellow for the light highlighted side of the pear). And a vermilion color for the underpainting of the background. Dark brown went down for the underpainting of the table. After I wet the colors and let them dry, I began to lay down dry color with prismacolors. I used blues on top of the background colors. Light greens on top of the pear. So here is my result, but I have to say, the original looks taller than this image.
Beth S. Macre © 2007
I really like the energy in this!
ReplyDeleteI think you created energy with the complementary colors and the strokes that you laid down.
Your values are great! This is something I'm working on and struggling with. I need to change the way I "see." Instead of turning my sketchbook upside down, maybe I should turn upside down. ;-D
ReplyDeleteThanks Cindy. It looked pretty strange before I added the colors on top of the complementary underpainting! But it was fun.
ReplyDeleteThanks Fannie. Please have someone take a picture if you turn yourself upside down! I want to see that! haha