The Indoor Painting Challenge....

Week #7 The 'Different Time of Day' Challenge.

Hope you're all doing well and staying safe. Ready for another art challenge? If so, read on…

Claude Monet painted many version of Haystacks. How different they appear during different times of the day. The colors, the contrasts, the feeling of the light. The subject stays the same, but in different light everything changes. Notice how this is indicated in the shadows and the coloring. Monet really captures a certain time of the day!

Your challenge is a 2-step one: Pick a subject to work from. It could be a still life, an interior or an exterior setting—and one that is affected by the surrounding light.
Make 2 paintings of the same scene, at different, notable times of the day. Think about the colors (cooler reds/warmer reds, cooler/warmer blues etc) to base your earlier/later day subject. Have fun!

The virtual gallery is growing with glowing works. Thank you for sharing your talents with us!

Janet and Susan

Sarah Tanzer's light infused studies from this week, one a watercolor on sight, the other a studio painting in oil. Says she: "I liked this week's painting challenge of doing two versions of the same subject because I want to start doing watercolor studies in the park and then oil paintings from them in my studio. Eventually I'm hoping to do plein air oil painting. The watercolor study was done in the park this past sunny Saturday.

Artist Virginia Naughton paints: "10am/6pm."

Both strong watercolors retain the architectural design and a strong foreground and a background. What shapes recede or get reavealed in different times of the day light makes the eye linger on both paintings.
Says she: I loved thinking about the color changes that go with the different times of day.