Albany Painted Lady (watercolor 11 x 14) $175
Passing through old downtown Albany, Oregon, I was struck by the bright morning light on the Victorian houses. I stopped to photograph them. Some of the houses are the National Register of Historic places. This one is the Ralston House, 1889. But it’s not the history, its the beautiful shadows cast by the brickenbrack that caught my eye.
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1. Comment by Nicola Dalbenzio
14/Mar/2011 at 8:52 pm
I love your attention to detail-I get stuck on what combinations to use for shadow.
2. Comment by Jenny Armitage
18/Mar/2011 at 6:16 am
I peeked at your blog and I like your work.
There is a general rule for shadow colors. The color of the shadow is the desaturated compliment of the object casting the shadow. So yellow objects throw gray or brown- purple shadows and red objects throw dull-green ones. So for example, if you are painting the shadow cast by an orange house, add a little of the orange to blue to desaturate the color and use the result as the shadow color.
Of course, the color on the ground on which the shadow lies will affect shadow color as will any reflected light from other objects. In other words there’s no substitute for really looking at the shadow.