Everyone brought toys for this class still life, and the assignment limited the student to two toys drawn so part of them went off the sides of the paper. I showed the class Harriet Shorr's book of paintings and we discussed how she would paint the negative space, the background, first. This would establish interesting intervals between objects and the main hue interaction for her painted objects.
Also, we discussed how this viewpoint had a high horizon line, which created a feeling of flat space and transformed the objects and background into an abstraction. The class drew their objects with colored watercolor pencils, trying to use a complimentary color....ie., blue pencil to line out Raggedy Ann's orange hair. Added a little zip to the work when the watercolor pencil would bleed into the painted areas.
Lay that paint down, Mary!
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