Katrina Willis, Evening in Autumn, 2008.
Pastel on paper, 9 × 12 inches.   © The Artist
http://www.katrinawillis.com

There are so many wonderful still life objects around now, so I’m going to weave in a few more still life related pictures into this next week!  This a beautiful gift from my wonderful husband- I drew these flowers in pastel on a gray (75%) toned paper.  It’s challenging to think about color value in the reverse.  So often, I tend to treat darker values as an additive.  We do this with everything.  We write notes with a dark ink on white or light paper.  Even as I type this now, the text on the screen is dark against a light background.  But in drawings like this, the lightest color value really guides the picture; it is a counter intuitive approach, and I get a kick out of the challenge and the philosophical implications.

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