Drying Time
Rick Koehler
You’ve heard me say this before, but one of the things I especially like about the sport of painting is that you never stop learning. One of my personal struggles has been in regards to correctly rendering shadows in my pieces. I think that shadows ‘anchor’ a painting, or at the very least they anchor the object which is casting a shadow.
In the initial version of Drying Time, my shadows were too dark and, quite frankly, lifeless. So I went back into the painting and lightened them and added a bit of blue to the mix, which added that lighter feeling than was originally painted. I think the shadows make this painting what it is, and I feel much better about the revisions.
Enjoy!