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Color Spots Demonstration

By Ed Terpening

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2019
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About this lesson

Demonstrates the Hawthorne color-spot approach: design the big shapes in charcoal, pre-mix separate light and shadow piles for each major area, test spots of color where areas meet, then fill the drawing with flat planes and let correct light/shadow relationships create form.