Rebecca
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This actually was the first time I have used watercolors, at least that I can remember. I *must* have used them back in grade school, but all I can remember using then was tempera. The palette for the painting below was made up of browns (for the chest and shoulder feathers), grays (for the head, wings, tail, legs and the tree stump), pinks (for the belly and the top of the wing) and a light golden yellow (for the bill). I came pretty close to the colors that I saw, I think, particularly for the belly, head and beak, at least. This is going to take a *lot* more practice, I see!
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How does one know where to shade and highlight when working on a quick gesture that was gone in fractions of seconds? It was okay when I was able to go back and replay and pause the video and see the highlights and shadows that weren’t captured in my sketch, but otherwise, it’s just guesswork.
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Upside down is interesting! It was easier to just deal with shapes and proportion. This is going to take some (a lot of) practice to sort areas into just shapes while in the field!
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Whoa! The upload squished my drawing, flattening it to the point my apple looks like a squash (aptly named!) and the banana looks fattened. So, I reinserted the image (below.) It looks okay as I’m writing this post, but we’ll see how it ends up.
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I’m comfortable enough, for now. The shadows and highlights were a little difficult where the dark coloring of the object merged with shadow. The shape of the object would get lost and I didn’t want to draw a hard line to show the shape. This might become somewhat easier when we start to use paint and the boundary between colors can indicate shape.
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Like everybody else, I do better when the bird stands still! Even so, I had a little difficulty getting the right shape and positioning of the bird’s head and its beak and eye. The rest followed easily once I had the head about right, though I still didn’t capture the plumpness of the photograph. If I were photographing this animal I would have been concerned about the composition of it and its environs, but not about the salient details. The mustard colored moss and mold on the branch really caught my eye as I was sketching.
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