AnnMina's World of Arts

A lazy afternoon, as I was idling around, achan (Dad) walks to me with his phone... His whatsapp open! "Why don't you paint something like this... The waves and the shadows..."  And, here I am... "Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made, for somewhere deep in their oaken hearts the soul of a song is laid."              —Robert N. Rose  The sky is lightest shade of blue blending into a very light yellow around sunrise, perhaps!!! The sky is light... The sea is full of reflections... Reflection of the boat, the pink shade... The image is a challenge for me because I have yet not mastered the lights and shadows and water is yet a mystery! But let's give it a try... Started off with pencil drawing of the outline keeping it as light as possible. One good thing with water colour painting is that the pencil lines can be erased off! Instead of normal pencil we can use watercolor pencil also (Thought of that later!...

"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."                   – Paul Cezanne Where there is light, there's always shadow, multi tones. Without them any picture would seen life less. It's the shades and reflections that give form to any object and breath to a picture... Creates an illusion of three dimension. Theoretically, a shadow is light blocked by an object. The object can block all or part of the light and based on the closeness to the light source the shadows change size. Shadows can be formed by one light source or more light sources. The Sun, lamps, flashlights, and fires are all sources of light. Not to complicate and as a beginner, I am concentrating on single light source.  The Will Kemp Art School 's A Beginners Guide to Light & Shadow   gives a good idea on the theory of shadows.  Almost all objects in the nature can be reduced to b...

Today afternoon amma walks into my room and sees me getting ready for some painting. Hadn't yet finalized what I was going to make! Picking up my older works she says, "Paint something from imagination!" And here it is... Something I vaguely remembered seeing in TV somewhere. Tried some shadowing effect. Here I am assuming that light source is from right hence the shadows are falling to the left and more towards the corner.. Though now that I actually think about it, I think it should have been more to the back... 🙄 For the shadow I have used dark grey from my 24 shades camel cake set.  That gives rise to an important question: Is Grey the correct colour for shadows? What are shadows? [5] drawpaintsculpt website (https://www.drawpaintsculpt.com/the-colour-of-shadows/) s ays, "It is a common misconception that a shadow is the absence of light. If there were no light in the shadow, you would not be able to see anything at all, whereas you almost always can...