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acrylic paintings, dictionary page art, painted dictionary page, paintings, shadows, Simple Paintings, trees
This lesson is called “Light, shadow, and value outdoors” and I quite enjoyed it. The road turned out to be a weird band-aid color, but I enjoyed the shadow colors and how to blend them. It was interesting to me that they were not made from adding black to the previous color (which is how I would have done it) but rather mixing a darker version of the color using black and a base color. For the road shadows the author recommends adding burnt sienna.
This exercise was about layering over and underpainting and can I say that I’m really loving working with glazes! I’m not a fan of his tree silhouettes, but I may redo this one and the previous tree using reference photos for the tree shapes.
I hope you have a beautiful day!
lunanista 
I continue to love this series. That shadow one, great! Very evocative.
Thank you! The composition is totally from the book I’m working through, but I’m finding this process of exploring acrylic painting this way is helping me find what I love about what is possible with acrylics.
Yes. Knowing the behaviors of the paints helps to know how you might go about a particular project or subject. I think this is great.