ROUTE by Linda Popple

Barbara Jones Fine Art

http://www.BarbaraJonesFineArt.com

 

Going to the "Nowhere But Texas Show"

The Dutch Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas

 

Cherry Red           Oil             14x18

 

Ways to approach Lost and Found Edges   A found line (sharply defined) and a lost line (less sharply defined) is used to suggest a more three-dimensional appearance of a subject in a painting.  Without this, an object will appear as if it were pasted onto the canvas.(who wants that?)   Use one light source whenever possible.   Set up your still life using one light source: either natural North light or a cool light bulb. It not only creates a three dimensional effect; it is the very nature of lighting in this world: one sun. After setting up your still life, close your eyes and very slowly open them so that you begin to see the shapes and edges of the objects.  Squint your eyes and you will see objects in the painting where edges blend and soften. Hard edges will occur where there is a dark value touching a light value.   Edges that are close in value will disappear or soften. An area that stands out in a still life usually will have your darkest dark touching your lightest light.  Below you can see the lightest light on the creamer touching the darkest dark of the background.  Notice how edges of the copper tea kettle fade and soften into the background. I purposely arranged my objects and light source to try and create this to be the center of interest for my painting that I am working on now.     Value Viewer Newest setup I hope to finish painting soon.    Recently I discovered a great app for my IPhone that is called the "Value Viewer".  It enables me to turn the photos I take with my IPhone into black and white and apply a grid.  This helps me with my value study as well as drawing the image onto the canvas.    Check out my website for my upcoming Workshop in October at the Dutch Art Gallery or to register go to dutchartgallery.net/event/barbara-jones-workshop/   Barbara A Jones 1709 Clearbrook Lane Corsicana, Texas 75110 (903) 875-9416 mallie22@sbcglobal.net   Barbara Jones Fine Art http://www.BarbaraJonesFineArt.com Click Here to View my Video  Click here to see my Fine Art Prints http://barbarajonesfineart.com/workshops http://barbarajonesfineart.com/email-newsletter