Tuesday Watercolour Class – Week Seven

I’ve been collecting lanterns for a few years and decided that it was time to give the Tuesday watercolour students a shot at them.

 

My morning watercolour demonstration is the red lantern on the left. I painted the background first and suggested that the students carefully consider the ‘figure/ground’ relationship; the interaction between the objects and their surroundings. This important concept has been a theme for us for the last several weeks.

The morning group responded and did very well but there was a bit of a struggle with the basic structure of the lanterns so I started off the evening class with a monochromatic analysis of a lantern. Light and shadow to the rescue!

The lanterns weren’t easy but they all work, don’t they? Most of the students focused on one main lantern, in the foreground, and added a silhouette or two to create depth and atmosphere. I didn’t really discuss colour so the artists get full credit for some of these very interesting colour choices and juxtapositions.

Tuesday AM Critique

Tuesday PM Critique

 

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