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Pastels Painting – How to Find light and dark areas
As you’re drawing with pastels, you also want to keep an eye out for light and dark areas. Light illuminates an object and creates the sense of depth in the scene. It also helps you create the illusion of three-dimensional form because the change in the color you see from one side of the objects to the other is created by the play of light and dark across the forms. The shapes of the light and dark areas you see are called the value pattern. As you examine those light and dark areas, take some time to think of the lights and darks as color differences and choose colors that achieve the effect of light and dark for the most interesting results. For example, light areas may be a paler version of the color and dark areas may be a deeper color.
If you’re working with a still life or a small interior scene, you can analyze the effect of the light. The first characteristic to notice is which direction your light is coming from. Put your hand or another object in the light to cast a shadow over the setup and notice what happens to the lighted areas and shadows; the cast shadow of your hand shows you the direction of the light and helps you correctly establish the pattern of light and dark. Look at each item in your scene and note how the light flows across one form to another, and then make sure you accurately represent this flow in your drawing.
Stay away from black and white and select colors that look light or dark instead. As you see in Figure 6-5, the tangerine has dark orange marks on one side and light orange on the other, but other colors are in play as well. Pale yellow creates the highlighted area, and red-violet and blue create the value in the darkest part. All these colors still meld with the other tangerine-y colors. You can be creative as you work, exploring more options for color to exaggerate the degree of light or to create an area of emphasis.
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