04-22-2015, 07:11 AM
No masterpiece, BUT done plein air while sitting on forest floor.
21.4.2015 - 14.00, sunny, cloudless day
- Light and dappled light in forest setting is even more random than anticipated - not just the obvious ones (dappled light on ground), but also the way everything else gets hit (i.e. thin branches)
- Forest floor is very diverse - grasses, strawberry plants, branches, old leaves (brown), needle tree branches, various kinds of groundcovering plants, flowers (white), old dead plant stuff sticking from the ground. Denser tree area = less green, more brown. (Might change once blackberry or impatiens plants come back)
- Not happy with the colors/greens, but not sure how to do better. There was lots of „green green“ and little „yellow green“. Some shadow colors (i.e. tree trunks) were hard for me to see/determine the right color.
Problems working like this:
- Obvious one is not seeing too well on small laptop which is placed on the ground in front of me, with wacom on my lap. I wish I had a bigger screen/newer laptop. But sitting in the shadow at least screen glare was no issue.
- Having to move my hand all the way to laptop to switch tools is rather annoying, so I put at least brush and eraser on my wacom keys.
21.4.2015 - 14.00, sunny, cloudless day
- Light and dappled light in forest setting is even more random than anticipated - not just the obvious ones (dappled light on ground), but also the way everything else gets hit (i.e. thin branches)
- Forest floor is very diverse - grasses, strawberry plants, branches, old leaves (brown), needle tree branches, various kinds of groundcovering plants, flowers (white), old dead plant stuff sticking from the ground. Denser tree area = less green, more brown. (Might change once blackberry or impatiens plants come back)
- Not happy with the colors/greens, but not sure how to do better. There was lots of „green green“ and little „yellow green“. Some shadow colors (i.e. tree trunks) were hard for me to see/determine the right color.
Problems working like this:
- Obvious one is not seeing too well on small laptop which is placed on the ground in front of me, with wacom on my lap. I wish I had a bigger screen/newer laptop. But sitting in the shadow at least screen glare was no issue.
- Having to move my hand all the way to laptop to switch tools is rather annoying, so I put at least brush and eraser on my wacom keys.