Showing posts with label warm ups. Show all posts
Showing posts with label warm ups. Show all posts

Friday, February 11, 2011

Daisy Dog and Value Scale Painting

These past few days have been a blur of paint and laughter. I have had the incredible fortune of taking a Pat Weaver workshop in Orlando. If you get a chance to learn from this lady, I highly recommend it. 


©VP Miller,  Daisy, Watercolor and Casein


Meet Daisy. She's a rescue mutt that we adopted some time ago. I started painted her in the workshop but finished her up today. She's such a good doggie! But she loves her vittles. Don't leave anything out or whoosh! it might disappear. 


And this is a value study that I also mostly completed in class. I added the final darks at home.

©VP Miller, Untitled, Watercolor


The idea is to work in one color only (in this case black), and to leave the paper as your lights. Then you add in your mid-tones and your darks. It's harder than it looks. I struggled with getting dark enough. I thought I had it at the workshop, but then added the final darks at home. Seems like some of the info I received only starting sinking in after I got home!


Does it seems that there's only so much great information that you can absorb at once? Or is it just me? Good thing there's notes!