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Color Theory – Light and Shadow Demonstration On A Light Surface

Ron Lemen

Happy holidays everyone, my last post of the year.  I am going to I did push the shadow a little darker overall but it should still demonstrate how sun and sky influence what we see.  I'm using the stormtrooper like a cast drawing because of its lightness and how easy it is to see the light influence over the local colors.  This involves the fourth characteristic of color, the use of temperature.  Hue, Value, Chroma,…

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Justin Coro Kaufman

October 17, 2024 - Been going to local figure drawing sessions lately. There’s a local art studio here in Kingston that’s been kind enough to host monthly figure drawing sessions, and I've made it a point of going. Just got back from doing it a little while ago. Feeling recharged 🙂 It’s been fun to work from a live model again. Figure drawing is like the best drawing exercise. When I was in art school I always felt like I made my biggest jumps when I was doing a lot of live figure drawing. and like most things when you’re young, I totally took it for granted. now that I’m old,  it’s easy to fall into my patterns and. its nice to be able to just sort of draw for drawing’s sake, experiment and play around and take chances…

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