6th Lesson - Teacups

Adding more flowers to the cups now.  They really can be any colour.  We want the flowers to look like they are painted on, so we are keeping them sharp and colourful.  We just have to make sure they are curving around the cup and saucer so they don't look stuck on.  We are shading them where the shadows land roughly, and will probably go back into them to add the dappled shadow when we finish the remaining shadows on the undecorated parts of the cups.

5th Lesson - Teacups

I thought we could give the shadows a break and add some colours.  I used Cadmium Red Light for the red flowers and Permanent Rose for the pink ones.  You could use any colour you wanted for these as they are just painted onto the teacups anyway.  The main idea is to give the cups shape by curving the flowers accordingly and shading the flowers away from the light source.  I just added a bit of Cobalt to the appropriate colours to make the darker shade.

13th Lesson - "Bonnie Wee Brook, Isle of Skye" Finished

Finished our creek painting by adding some more fine grasses with the help of some Liquin and highlights to the foreground.

5th Lesson - Teacups

We've finished fiddling around with the tablecloth for now.  We need to get rid of the white canvas by filling in the teapot and cups.  That way we can go back to our tablecloth and redo some of the shadows accordingly.  I started with darks first and dabbed in the shadows, feathering off with white last.  I then added some colour, making it a bit more orange to match the tablecloth underneath, and a light blue on the right of the pot to reflect the background.

"Got Wine?"

I just received a first prize for my painting "Got Wine?" from the Matthew Flinders Art Prize on Bribie Island.  It was a lovely surprise.  There's nothing better than drinking a red wine on a beautiful Australian beach!

4th Lesson - Teacups

Just filling in the shadows on the tablecloth still.  For now, we are keeping the shadows soft so that we can go back into them at a later date.  We'll probably work on our tea set next so that we can determine how dark our tablecloth shadows need to be.  We are now using Australian Grey to do some of the more creamy highlights in the shadows.