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Shawn Farley Black


Tuesday, August 10, 2010

A Good Start! Not Bad!

One of my new students is learning to draw and recognize the full range of values (lights to darks) in a still-life.  Her first black and white charcoals she did well.  We started with a still-life of a lemon and then moved onto 2 overlapping peaches, both working in charcoal. This is her first oil painting of a grapefruit.  We kept it to a limited palette of yellow, white and black (however we did not have black so we used brown).  At first she worked on a couple of charcoal drawings of the grapefruit to understand the play of light (values).  Rachele's use of charcoal is good, she has a light touch and listens well.  This week for homework, she will finish her first still-life of a grapefruit in oil on canvas board.  I can't wait to see it!

2 comments:

Nuni said...

This is wonderful work! Your new student is very talented!
xoxo~Lisa

Vivienne @ the V Spot said...

She may have had to substitute with brown, but she's lucky to have Black for a teacher!
:)