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Decorative Art
People who enjoy decorative art rarely find themselves confined to the flat and two dimensional surface of the traditional painter's canvas, but widely employ three dimensional objects to paint on. These objects can be made of ceramics, mache, cardboard, paper, slate, plastic, metal, masonite, glass, wood, stone and other materials. Items used to paint on may include figurines, pieces of furniture, flower pots, trays, candle sticks, clay pots, boxes of all shapes and sizes, ceramic bowls and many other typical household objects. Subjects painted often include birds, bunnies, cuddly toys, vegetables, insects, cartoon characters, animals, fruit, butterflies, cars, plants, celebrities and many more. Because subject patterns are extensively traced onto the items to be decorated, advanced freehand drawing skills are most often not obligatory if is involved. Putting highlights and shadows to a tangible object lends a three dimensional inkling to it. First thing is to decide which direction the light is shining from. This must be identical on each feature on the subject. Highlights must be added on the side the light is coming from and shadows on the opposite. Highlights occur where bright light strikes an object and are ordinarily pretty small. Don't get into the habit of using pure white to produce a highlight, but rather a very pale tone of the color of the object. Pure white will generally be too coarse or unreal. For example, if we take a brick use a very pale shade of pink. Color Wheel Shadows appear on the other side of an object to the highlight. Don't use pure jet black to create a shadow, as this will tend to look stark and bright. Instead use a more dense shade of the primary color of the object, a darker red in the case of a brick. You can also try using a darker tint of the complementary color of the object. The reasoning behind this is that complementary colors give the illusion of making each other appear more brilliant. For a red apple a shadow in a complementary color would be a deep green. The simplest denser complementary color is to mix some black in with it. On an artistic color wheel, complementary colors lie opposite one another. |
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