Fall 2019 Pastel Class

Project: Alaskan Fishing Village Week 3

This week we worked our way down into adding the lean-to shed/garage to the main building, adding color to the red building and adding some simple detail, under painting the boats, the shoreline and the greenery around the base of the buildings.


The colors for the shed are the gray, cream and indigo for the light ans shadow. You might want to have a separate box to keep the color you have been using for a project in until you have finished it, I find it is a lot easier to find colors rather than staring into all my colors looking for what I hope is the color I am looking for.

The red building is a deep dirty red regardless of what it looks like here, it is just the contrast between the red and the green that makes it look like bright red. If you don't have a dark dirty red, use the darkest red you have and add in some burnt sienna to it (a brick color) and blend them together. I also added a person and some "stuff" in front of the building just to make it look like people actually live here. The ails cam last.

 Before you get all panicky about the boat, keep in mind that it is made up with a series of shapes. The back of the boat has a curved shape, the sides are just broken lines and the cabin is a couple of boxes. I used a light gray, a darker gray, a light and medium gray/blue and the indigo, that's it. Don't over think this it is too small for much detail, it is just a shape.

The row boat again is just simple shapes, curves at the front, straight lines every place else. I used medium, warm gray, light blue/gray and indigo.

I also used that warm gray and a tan to add a shoreline around where the water meets the land, look at the photo, in the front only a little shows, in front of the red building it comes up behind the boat. Be sure that your chalk strokes follow the direction of the slope of shoreline.

The grasses and the bushes have a light yellow green, a medium yellow green and a dark blue green for shadows and some light sienna in it as well. I used the lither greens to blend into the darker green of the bushes using a scumbling (all directions) stroke, while I used a more vertical strokes for the grasses. Don't be afraid to pull the grasses up around the bottoms of the pilings and the boats, that will settle those things down into the grass.

Next week we will work on the reflections and final details of this painting so try to have yours to this point, we - I - may finish this in our next class.

See you all in class.