Reading Together study
January 26, 2011
Color/value study of the next piece. I took this candid shot of my two little guys and couldn’t wait to try to put it on paper. The drawing is almost done and ready to go. Stay tuned!
Paintings and Images by Karen Berstler
Color/value study of the next piece. I took this candid shot of my two little guys and couldn’t wait to try to put it on paper. The drawing is almost done and ready to go. Stay tuned!
January 28, 2011 at 11:41 pm
I love this just the way it is. I know you will do a great job with this painting, as you always do, but I can’ttake my eyes off of this study. I am hungry for those illustrations we used to see, in books. You have captured that here. Very fitting style for an illustration of children reading.
January 31, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Thanks for the vote of confidence!
I hope I can reproduce what I see in my head onto the actual painting.
Lately I have felt that there was something missing in some of my pieces, that they were flat, or…..”something”. Thanks to your blog and some other artists’ that you link to, I have figured it out. Value! I have been so consumed with color lately that I completely forgot about the basic concept of rendering an object three dimensional. So this was first a value study, then secondly a way to work out some of the color.
I know what you mean about great illustrations in children’s books. Since my children are only 6 and 2 there is an abundance of children’s books in my house! As I am reading to them I find myself critiquing and analyzing the artwork and illustrations! It’s like I am discovering them again for the first time, but from a whole new perspective.