Judith Reidy's Prize Winner and Entrys to the FAME Plein Air Competition in Mukwonago

Prize Winner
Home with the Trumpet Vine
Oil
11" x 14"
$375

Phantom
12" X 16"
Oil
$350

Judith Reidy enters two paintings into the FAME Plein Air Competition in Mukwonago, WI this past week.  She received an award for the "Home with the Trumpet Vine".  Enjoy!  You may inquire to purchase these fine paintings.

Flower Shop Painting Demo by Judith Reidy

Flower Shop by Judith Reidy

   Now this was a lot of fun.  I made this painting as a demo right inside my New Berlin Michaels Arts and Crafts store.  The flower lady, Sandy, in the back ground was happy to have this painting of her in the flower shop.  Hope you enjoy the fun.

Tricky Project in Reading Colors as Values

 Hope you enjoy this tricky project of reading colors as values.

• Black to White in seven steps
• Raw Sienna to light 4 steps
• Raw Sienna and Cad Red Light 4 steps to white
• Cad Red Light 4 steps to white
• Burnt Umber in six steps
• Raw Umber in seven steps

Take a look in Grayscale. 

What do you think? 

• Is Raw Sienna and Cad Red Lt and the mix of the two actually closest to the third lightest grey?
• Maybe all the colors in the fourth row are too light for the middle value?  Yes ! 

• Can the Raw Umber and Burnt Umber  very Lightest  and second lightest be made lighter to match their gray value

Well, back to correcting the values.

Reading colors as values can be tricky

Stage 2 of Still life Pomegranates and Fruit of the Vine

Stage 2
1:57 pm
(took 40 min to photo and load)

Pomegranates and the Fruit of the Vine

Source material in the open air- Plein Air Still life

Quick sketch in covered area
Source material on open patio to left
12:13 pm 06/03/2011

Enjoy this link to Sergei Bongart: Notes on Painting Compiled & edited by Norm Nason

As most of you know my personal focus of discussion this summer has been on value and color. I recently found a good article on color by

Sergei Bongart: Notes on Painting

Compiled & edited by Norm Nason

at this link.

I was particularly interested in the comments made about shadows in relation to form and the color of light and the object.

Enjoy!