Artists work with their darks at different times of the painting process ... I find that 95% of the time with my watercolors I hold off until the finishing steps for place the darkest darks and make the lighter values POP!
I am preparing an assortment of items for an upcoming holiday bazaar in Bloomington IN and as I worked on these little snowpeople, I had to restrain from putting in the dark coal and brown twigs... I knew that would make it look so much better ... but in watercolor - it can/will smear!
Everything takes time in art and in life.... patience is often required to be "successful". Working (and playing) at your art every day brings about the knowledge to know when it is the time to control or let loose.
Enjoy the process!
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Your snowpeople are darling and ought to fly away at the bazaar!
ReplyDeleteI agree; in the collage work I do, eventhough I add some darks.....the DARK-darks are always the very last to go in. They are put in selectively so that the work had depth and (in my style) a bit of age/dirt or mystery.
It is interesting how it works the same in other mediums.....And believe me....my black Staz-On smears like you wouldn't believe and I have finally learned to WALK AWAY after I have applied it! :) Finally......
Good luck!!!
XXOO!!
Anne