Thank you so much for your kind comments about my enamel piece. I did take my a while to develop my shading styles - and to master how to achieve the colors I imagined in my... moreHello Lauren,
Thank you so much for your kind comments about my enamel piece. I did take my a while to develop my shading styles - and to master how to achieve the colors I imagined in my head.
People shade in many different ways - and I often vary slightly my shading techniques - but often the way my shading is done is by using several shades of a simular color darker to lighter in one chamber - and the variation is added by maybe not just going only from darker to lighter - but also going to slightly varying hues of the over all color.
For example - with the blues in one of the rings - I put a little of several blues in line from dark to light - a dab of each and worked them with the brush or pick and water until I saw a shaded effect. I visual blurring of the dark to light. I used #26 Soyer dark blue, then # 25 Soyer slight lighter medium blue, then # 23 Soyer lighter still blue - they are all a simular color of blue just darker to lighter. But then into the mix I worked in slightly different... less
February 19, 2010
Lauren Coe
Beautiful. Absolutely, marvelously, perfect. The colors, the composition, the balance with the metal, the execution is flawless... THIS is what I want to learn how to do.
Thank you so much for your kind comments about my enamel piece. I did take my a while to develop my shading styles - and to master how to achieve the colors I imagined in my... more
How DO you get the colors to do that?