BobBlast 427 - "What Color is Your Shadow?"
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Weekly BobBlast Issue 427
What Color is Your Shadow?
Welcome Back to Another BobBlast!
Blast from the Past… again! This BobBlast painting demo is how I observe the effects of glass and practicing what I see. Whether you paint realistically or as an impressionist painter, observe and study the object you are about to paint.
A quick technique, with your phone, take some close-up photos of a glass of water - take many photos of different angles and observe them in black/white mode. Practice painting these glasses of water in black and white; then do the same in color.
Most glass has a thicker bottom, reminiscent of a glass hockey puck with light beams bouncing out all around… and particularly at one bright spot that shines into the shadow. I refer to that as “the hot spot.”
Now, look at the shadow color. The yellow liquid reflects on a blue table top. Our inclination is to make the shadow yellow - but instead, your shadow color in this case is green. Yellow and blue make green, right?
But wait, you say! Shadows in a snow scene are blue or violet - how come? The shadow is generally the complementary color of the light source. The orange sun makes a blue shadow. Isn’t painting fun???
Don’t paint for absolute accuracy. Paint for the colors of reflection in the shadow and all over the glass. Watch me do this in the demo. Photograph different liquid colors in a variety of glassware shapes. Paint many warm-ups, as suggested above. Soon, thru observation and practice, painting the illusion of glass becomes automatic. Robert Motherwell called this “automatism” and his paintings are in museums. Be like Motherwell!
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You bring joy to the artworld Bob, thankyou.
Thank you for your very kind words!
I’m dying for a whiskey now! Love this ,thanks so much once again Bob! ❤️❤️❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
LOL! Thank you!
You have fun. Period. That's the whole ball of wax! thanks Bob
Thank you!
Bob you are the highlight of my week - I haven't told my husband yet!😂 You are so inspiring and such a good teacher. Thank you🙏
LOL Thanks!
Thanks Jan!
You are a great teacher Bob.
So much fun to watch you paint. This reminds me of when I was at Art Center in Pasadena back in mid 80's, pre-computers and we learned to draw glass objects with all the highlights and shadows and always the star on one point of the edge, for the hot spot. We learned to illustrate products for our comps, including glass ware. They had to look as real as we could make them. This takes me back to those illustration and advertising classes.
Thank you. Again, absolutely love to watch you teach. Wish I had the money to take your classes. Watching you makes me want to draw and paint again. Be safe and well.💖🙏💖
Ahhh! I used to work at PAS Graphics! I loved you students.
So fun to watch. All of a sudden, the glass pops into view.
Love love love all of your wonderful videos thank you so much
Thank you!
Wow! Its late at night, but i will be trying that one tomorrow. You are a great teacher Bob.
Thanks!
What a great lesson, thanks!! Love seeing you paint glass and especially glass vases with flowers!
Thanks! Look for a Flower Vase Demo BobBlast very soon!
Genius!
Thank you Bob I have never used the hot spot but I will now
Awesome!
Greetings from the Lake District in the UK. Thank you for making these videos and teaching us so many different ways to approach and make art. You are a wonderful artist and a pleasure to learn from ❤️
Thank you - that is very kind of you! I'm glad you're enjoying the BobBlasts.
Thank you Bob again. Always learning from you.
Thanks!
Bob, you’re a generous teacher. 💕
Thank you, Peggy - I have always believed that teachers TEACH.
Thank you so much for the generosity and kindness with which you share your art with us. Greetings from Berlin 🇩🇪☀️❤️🙏🏻
Thanks!
Great Reminder Bob Thanks
You are a great teacher, Bob! I love your colour wheel, the explanation about reflection and the loose brush strokes.
Thanks! Appreciate your kind words!
Greetings from England Bob. Your videos are invaluable i love Monday mornings as i just love your teaching. Many many thankyou's. 🙂👍💜
I look forward to Mondays as well! I love reading the comments!
Always very informative!
Thank you... So freshly inspiring ❤
You are an Inspiration, a wonderful Teacher and Outstanding paintings Artist! Congratulations extraordinary, remarkable Art work
Thank you for your very kind words!
the comment from anitajones is wrong you do not bring joy to the artworld, you bring joy to the whole world thank you bob all the best from the uk and keep teaching us amatures !!!
Thank you Pete! Very kind of you!
Thank you Bob. I hope to take a class with you on day. This looks like fun! I love glass and the way it looks. Thanks for being easy to follow and explaining step by step. Not going too fast.
Thunder and lightening in Bristol UK today - Dramatic like you. Thanks for your demos, they are great, easy to follow with results too.
Thank you! Yes - I like the dramatic!
Love that still life! wow!
great ideas, thanks
Thank you 💖
Thanks for sharing. Love it!
Ur easy 2 listen 2 Bob. 👍relaxing. Thanx 4 sharing with us all.
Thank you!
Thank you and All the best.
Thank you Christine!
Always good stuff!❤️
Love this one!!🎉
Just love the opera pink.. i just had to buy some !
One of my favorites!
I looove your videos!
Thank you!
Thank you for being such an inspiring teacher!
Thank you Linda!
Thank you!Looking forward to trying this.
Thanks!
Love this goodie you help me so much
Thank you! Glad you are finding the BobBlasts useful!
Thank you Bob.
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Bob, that was very useful and I'll give it a whirl ..... just found a supplier this side of the world for those pencils so will be getting them soon. Stay safe mate.
Awesome! Thanks - enjoy those pencils!
As always I just love your videos Bob! For sure my favorite content on youtube....In this day and age of technology....especially here in the San Francisco bay area, you just bring a feeling of something that the world is missing and going away from....Creativity and having a passion !!!!
Thank you for your kind and generous words.
Bobblast you are so generous and have such a wealth of art knowledge! Love your videos! Thankyou from zambia!!!
Thank you!
Bob is my art mentor ❤ 😁😉
Thank you, Carolyn!
Learned a lot from this video short tutorial. Thanks
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Thank you for the photos of succulents
Bob, your joy is my motivation! Question: Is it ok to paint a canvas while it is lying flat or must it be on an easel? Someone said that a painting not done on an easel will never be painted at the correct angle. Is this true? Thank you!
hmmm... I paint my canvases flat. Interesting comment! I am sure they have a good reason!
The very large brush to your right what type of brush is that called ? I inherited one like that from my father.
That brush is an Escoda Brush - a "Large Dome" Brush - one of my favorite brushes.
When use gesso, depending on effect desired, do you ever add paint color to white gesso for pastel like ground?
Thanks Judith - I get this question a lot during workshops. I have added acrylic paint to my white acrylic gesso and it seems that I am using A LOT of my paint to get the desired color. That is why I will either gesso THEN add a wiping of acrylic color OR use Holbein's Color Gesso. Appreciate your question!
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Do you gesso your paper for acrylic paint!! Thx
Yes, I do!
I absolutely love your work and teaching. I am fairly new to acrylics and having so much fun. What I always wonder is how you can squeeze out your colors at the beginning and have them stay wet? Mine dry up so quickly and I pretty much have to put out each color as I use it. I do live in a dry climate so I know that can be an issue. What's your secret for keeping your paint piles moist? Thanks.
Hi Joan, Thanks for your question. What I do: I put out small dollops of paint, enough to last a short period of time (like 1/2 hour) before I refresh those piles again. I add no modifiers, slow drying or "open" acrylics. I paint fast, so that is also helpful.
30 year old and painting , learning is fun and confident,
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Thank you!
Why no gesso?
No.2 sized Brush. 🤣🤣
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I thought that you were a watercolor painter..?
I paint in watercolor, acrylic - basically anything that dissolves in water. I stopped painting in oils awhile ago.
You are Deliciousness!
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