Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The Challenging Cup and Saucer


The Challenging Cup and Saucer
My painting in water color 


The April Paint and Draw Together Challenge is a lovely photo of a cup and saucer, 2 cookies and a coffee pot. Just a simple set up, However the lighting on the photo is such that the coffee pot is in semi darkness and has lots of reflections. So pretty difficult to paint. Add to that I am not really used to the intricacies of using water color paints yet so I can truly say this was a CHALLENGE.

The original photo challenge

Still you can see the results. Not too bad. I do think a study done in acrylic paint would have allowed for a denser color in the background but then the cup would not have turned out so well.
It will be very interesting to see how the other artists paint the study. You can see these at http://paintanddrawtogether.blogspot.com/. I hope to lean a lot by looking at their studies.

1 comment:

  1. A super job you really have made the pot in the background look
    very good with all the depth and highlights makes the picture
    with the cups nice and bright which makes a nice balance.
    Congrats Babs

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