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Paint The Long Light Of Late Summer

Color And Contrast To Capture Light & Moment In Time

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

  • Contrast For Light 
  • A Sense Of Time 
  • Complex Value Composition 

About This Lesson

This painting is an exercise in capturing light at a particular time of the year.

The sun is settling toward the fall equinox in late summer. The lower sun means longer shadows in the early and late hours of the day.

Summer greens have changed, fading and dulling as they start to change to fall color.

We’ll work on capturing late summer light, long shadows and fading greens all in this lesson.   

What you’ll need:

  • RECOMMENDED PAPER : Arches or Saunders 140lb Cold Press Watercolor Paper cut to about 8”h x 10”w
  • BRUSHES : Large (#16 or larger), Medium (#12 or #14) and Small Rounds (#6 or #8) and A Rigger
  • PAINT : Indanthrene Blue,  Quinacridone Burnt Scarlet, Cadmium Yellow, Quinacridone Deep Gold
  • PAINT SUBSTITUTES: For Quinacridone Burnt Scarlet – a combination of Permanent Alizarin Crimson and Burnt Sienna;  Ultramarine Blue for Indanthrene Blue; Use the green mixes from Indanthrene and Cad Yellow for all greens if you don’t have Deep Gold

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