Workshop - Day Two
6x6in oil on canvas board - not for sale
Qiang did another fabulous demo in the morning, this time it was on 'high key' painting.
He told us it would be harder to do than the low key painting and I found out he was quite correct. A Low Key painting has dominant dark areas... and they hold a painting together. A 'High Key' painting means dominant light, so with a high key painting you have to design with color. As you probably know, light washes out color so that means your middle tone and shadow will be where the color is. I found that difficult to do. This is the painting I did and because I found it so difficult I will try another one today hoping to avoid the mistakes I made.
Check out Qiang's High Key demo here to see his beautiful color.
Well your workshop painting looks a lot better than mine did! I hadnt painted in months when I went to the class, but it sure did a kick start on me. Nice job.
ReplyDeleteGreat job! I think both set ups are difficult ones. You did well.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Virginia.
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful painting. Well done!
ReplyDeleteThank you Ken.
ReplyDeleteI am going through all your exercises done under
ReplyDeleteQiang Huang. One sentence you wrote in this painting had me thinking!I quote 'light washes out colour..so the middle tone and shadow will be where the colour is" Revelation...