How to Paint Light with Aaron Blaise

Aaron explains why light is one of the foundational elements for representational artists.

Learn to identify the light source to translate it with simple shapes.

Projecting shadows for simple shapes using perspective and achieve the chiaroscuro.

Get the basis for understanding how light and shadow works in a more complex environment.

Simple exercise, to express volume in a face.

Apply what you have learned to give light and shadow to faces.

Follow the exercises to show a face with different angles of light. You can use Aaron’s template.

Learn how basic colors behave with shade and light.

Take the last exercise to a practical painting, reaffirming the concept of “local color”.

Learn how the surrounding colors influence the perception of tones and values.

Use what you have learned in a lioness composition.

Take the same composition within a sunset.

In a third scene, we obtain a different result by changing the position of the light source.

Marked shadows can suggest the presence of elements that you can´t see in the composition.

Experiment with three light sources in different position.

Light applied to a background for animation.

Use what you have learned, go out there and put some lighting back in the world (with the #PaintLightWithAaronBlaise #PaintLight #AaronBlaise)