Weekly BobBlast Issue 427
What Color is Your Shadow?

Welcome Back to Another BobBlast!

Blast from the Past… again! This BobBlast painting demo is how I observe the effects of glass and practicing what I see. Whether you paint realistically or as an impressionist painter, observe and study the object you are about to paint.

A quick technique, with your phone, take some closeup photos of a glass of water take many photos of different angles and observe them in black/white mode. Practice painting these glasses of water in black and white; then do the same in color.

Most glass has a thicker bottom, reminiscent of a glass hockey puck with light beams bouncing out all around… and particularly at one bright spot that shines into the shadow. I refer to that as “the hot spot.”

Now, look at the shadow color. The yellow liquid reflects on a blue table top. Our inclination is to make the shadow yellow but instead, your shadow color in this case is green. Yellow and blue make green, right?

But wait, you say! Shadows in a snow scene are blue or violet how come? The shadow is generally the complementary color of the light source. The orange sun makes a blue shadow. Isn’t painting fun???

Don’t paint for absolute accuracy. Paint for the colors of reflection in the shadow and all over the glass. Watch me do this in the demo. Photograph different liquid colors in a variety of glassware shapes. Paint many warmups, as suggested above. Soon, thru observation and practice, painting the illusion of glass becomes automatic. Robert Motherwell called this “automatism” and his paintings are in museums. Be like Motherwell!

I have a Studio Chart to remind you about painting the Illusion of Glass. It hangs in my studio for reference.

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