Drawing lessons - illustrated lesson notes for teachers and students

roses3

For the leaves I use a mix of ultramarine blue and yellow ochre. Liven this up with some strokes

of deep red. Shadows should never be bland. Where the light strikes some of the leaves you

might want to bring them up with a little cadmium yellow and a blue/white mix (see the green

highlights above).

Next I would like you to consider the 'negative' space. That is what I call most of the area

around the roses, in this case the background, the foreground and the cast shadow. Here you

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