Silhouetting

Sorry that it's been a while getting around to painting this from the last posting. I took a side trip down to Bradenton to visit an old friend of mine.

This week I'm giving a workshop here in the Apalachicola area. This was the first demo I did for the class. I tried to illustrate the concept of granulation. The soft colors of the sky were created by painting wet-into-wet.  The softness of the sky made the dark, hard edged silhouettes of the fishermen cleaning their catch stand out even more dramatically.

  If you study the silhouettes, you"ll see that there is very little detail within the shapes of the figures. If you get the silhouette shapes right, details are not needed to describe the figures.

In the next post, I'll talk about painting the negative areas to define the shapes of the white or light shapes.