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Strengthen Your Paintings With Shadows
Shadows Have Several Properties That Benefit Watercolor Paintings
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
- How shadows connect separate elements
- How shadows reveal form and contour
- How shadows add darks to widen the value range and create ‘pop’
- How to color shadows and their benefit in representing different objects with different local color
About This Lesson
These short tutorials show how the addition of shadows into a scene provides multiple benefits to the painting and strengthens the overall composition and how to color them for visual variety and overall harmony and unity in the composition.