Series 31: WORKING IN DIRECT SUNLIGHT

Interpreting Backlight- S31L4 Download

 This lesson is S31L4, Interpreting Backlight of the WORKING IN DIRECT SUNLIGHT Series.   Using as her subject a mountain road though woods, Dianne takes us step by step through a fields of shadow and fields of light when the subject is in backlight.  Specifically addressed are value contrast, reflected light and degrees of neutrality found in these fields.

Under direct sunlight, the position of the sun and the position of the viewer effect our perception of everything we see.  Not only that,  but direct light actually gives us three different light sources:  the sun itself, the sky and reflected light from illuminated images.  This   series addresses how the location of the sunlight effects the way we see color according to its orientation to the sun itself.

 Rather than becoming refined paintings, all these lessons are studies, each showing a different approach for using color schemes.  Dianne’s approach to teaching is to show you ways to think about making choices and decisions so that you can work these into your own unique approach to painting.

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With every brushstroke we make, we are composing.  Just as with any creation, we begin with a structure, then as the art work begins we place shapes and colors according the concept with which we are working.  But the time comes when we move to a different level of thinking and decision-making–that moment when our intention becomes to bring clarity and resolution to the work.

Among Dianne’s passions about painting and teaching painting is how composing principles can expand creative freedom if the artist transcends the “rule” idea and instead, transforms the principle into a tool that opens creative doors.

Read Dianne’s Compose blog posts HERE.  Visit Dianne’s website and example her work HERE.  And visit her YouTube Channel with dozens of Quick Tips HERE.