Holiday

Jack O’Lantern II.. The Re-Do

| cathmary1030

I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I realized that I needed to use a color closer to Burnt Sienna as my desaturated orange; my desaturated “orange” was simply too brown and yellow.

In any case, while it was fresh on my mind, I decided to do a quickie painting of another jack o’lantern, skipping the smaller one and just focusing on getting the colors correct. I used a 6×6 Ampersand Gessoboard that I had toned with yellow ochre several months ago.

The color of the surface the pumpkin sits on is actually a bit more lavender than blue; the photo lighting is a bit off. And I really dislike the slippery Gessoboard!

Jack O’Lantern.. Complete

| cathmary1030

So I’m done with the jack o’lantern. The overall point was to make the lit-up eyes, nose and mouth “pop” by desaturating the orange. But it feels too desaturated to me, not to mention too yellow. Sigh!

Sure enough, yes, the colors are completely off. Turns out the burnt sienna I used to mark out the value map was really closer to the color I wanted for the big pumpkin! It’s also closer to the color in the photo, as well as the color Chris (the PaintCoach) used.