AnnMina's World of Arts

वो हसीन शामें।  हम और चाय की प्याली।  समोसा और जलेबी भी सात हो तो क्या बात हो जाती। Mmm... Those pre-covid days... A dedication to those evenings... Unhurried... stress-free... Absolute bliss! Started with a pencil drawing of an outline of the image I chose from the Internet! Colours used mainly are yellow ochre and burnt siena for the samosas and tea cup, respectively. Cadmium orange, lemon yellow for the jalebis. Prussian blue mixed with scarlet will give a gray shade. That's used for the shadows of the plate and on the plate. Mix of the gray with other colours for the shadows and folds in samosa where light doesn't reach! Brushes used are size 8 and size 0 round brushes. It's supposedly a steel plate... They have lots of dark and light shades due to reflections and shadows of the items on the plate and the curves and bends... For the surrounding, it could be a table mat or a table top. I guess its a table ma...

"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...