![]() ![]() Give me golden hour lighting just about any time with warm light. Well…I know what I like in photography – my ability to execute that in watercolor is still a work in progress. What is the direction of your lighting source in your paintings? In a coming post, I’ll elaborate on various design approaches for the use of light, shade and shadow. 3”, one of a series of paintings exploring the use of color, light, shade and shadow, for a subject in the wonderful village of Lourmarin, in the Provence region of southern France: Here’s a painting of mine in which light shade and shadows are the dominant creative tool used for the painting, “Between the Shadows and the Light, No. Still life, florals, figures, portraits, cityscapes, landscapes, pets–you name it–are all brought to life and enhanced by an awareness, understanding and application of the principles of light, shade and shadow. This is true regardless of subject matter. Lighting, shade and shadow are some of a painter’s strongest tools for creating contrast, for sharing ideas, emotions and feelings in a painting, and for establishing a personal approach to painting. And where there may be no light, shade, shadows, reflections, highlights anywhere in a painting, i.e., everything in a painting, everywhere, is rendered uniformly and without hue or value difference. It’s not uncommon to see paintings posted by early and intermediate painters (and sometimes even advanced painters), where there is no apparent light source at all. ![]() Yet, lighting, shade and shadows are seldom or infrequently taught, and, more often than not, left up to every individual painter to recognize and pick up in their painting journey. One of the strongest and most important tools for intermediate and advanced painters may be the understanding and use of light, shade and shadows in their paintings. ![]()
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