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| "Kayaks in Coupeville" 6x12 oil on panel $400 |
Three or five simple but interesting shapes. That's what you're looking for in a plein air painting. I think this painting is a good example. If you reduced this painting down to two values, black and white, you can do this by squinting..(something you should do a LOT in the field while painting) you will see everything in the shade as black and everything in the sun as white. Those shapes should be interesting. Go ahead, do a search on "Notan" and play around with black and white shapes in your sketch book...Oh, you don't have a sketch book? Drop everything and go out and get one! Or order one online. Or contact me and order one of mine.. =]
A note about shadow shapes. All the detail in the shadow shape should reside value wise in that shadow shape. I sounds easier than it is and you have to work on it. The first step is understanding what I am saying here. Again I think this painting is a good example of that. See the apparently "white closed umbrella on the deck that looks like a white sort of stick standing up in front of the awning? It's not white paint! But it looks white. It "reads" white because it is a value within the shadow shape value. If I painted it with pure titanium white it would stick out like a sore thumb.
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