FF Black Patterns

The top picture was my hard-fought "Quit before you're done" effort. I wanted to paint the background to silhouette the pumpkins, and add much more color to the pumpkins and gourds. I had the blacks much darker, but they overwhelmed the rest and I had to lighten them. I was going for the Japanese Woodblock Print effect.

Turkey Day Blacks

Underporch, Undercar, and Underbush!

Aaaand, back

An urbanism, architechture, leaves!, sedumn joys, and chara's apt. All with the excellent sharpie pen. I like that it can keep up with a fast stroke. Alack, some of my strokes are too fast.

KEEPING AT IT: Finding Black Patterns

"Preserve your whites," but "Let the blacks lead the eye."

Let's look for black patterns. They are everywhere, though some need rearranging for a good picture. But that's what we are doing, making pictures, not taking photos. For now Let's keep the blacks fairly small.

Here's a sample of what I'm trying to get at. This is a motel room desk. The blacks, from left to right are: a one cup coffee maker, lids on two KT coffee cups, lid and shadow on a thermos, and connecting them all, a dark plastic brochure holder. The actual black pattern is on the picture below this.

Black Patterns

CONSIDERATIONS

It's nearly one year since we started doing this. Has your "five minutes a day," or whatever time you made for it, made a difference? In your voice? Emotional confidence? Habitual practice?

I intend to finish the year. Do we want to go on?

2B & WC

November Sky
Morning Fence
Doug's Andirons

FF Leaves 2

None of these occur here in the North.

FF Leaves 1

In GA we found grandchildren throwing piles of oak leaves. After the rains many of those leaves were flattened and silhouetted on the sidewalks. That's when I noticed that I had never seen the likes of them anywhere here up north. To remember the different shapes I started giving them names. Finally I began looking them up and discovering the real names. Much fun.