spam

May I add mine -
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=91487

Qsilv

spam -- "May" you?? lol.... yep!

This is providing some remarkably well thought out pieces... I was a mite worried there the first day or two, utterly needlessly as it turns out. You guys have SUCH good spirits and interesting minds.

Ok folks... here comes the weekend... two full days to play with possibilities in these silly things

....AND that new palette with its transparent pieces offers a whole new dimension!

clorophilla

just a contribution for sharing experimenting
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=91722

puzzler

Here's a bit of a ghostly egg for you!

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=91860

Qsilv

niiii-ice, both of those!

ok ok, I neeeed to experiment with that new palette myself... and I've got two drawings in mind, but man oh man that palette's so rich I'm not sure where to start!

Qsilv

soooooooo... I started by spending an indecent amount of time tinkering with something that definitely fulfills Heidi's Mugdots challenge for a cup or mug or wineglass... some beloved drinking vessel... in my case, teacups... and it just MAY work here too.

Beleek is a particularly fine porcelain, with excellent transparency. So what I've tried to accomplish here is not merely the shadow cast onto the table (admittedly coarse -- I don't have control of that yet in this new palette), but also the shadows between the gently fluted/scalloped sections AND the quality of 'glow' coming through on the left when the light source is largely from the right...

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=92125

five

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=92132

Shanley

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=92155

Heidi2323

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=92176 Feeling silly entry.

Qsilv

*grinning... feeling silly entries are a huge part of the fun around here.

I'm loving the rich bright colors you guys are entering!

Now I've got several hours of RL work, so the deadline is unofficially extended til I get enough done to rise above my guilt quotient... probably won't choose a winner til at least midnight, maybe even morning.

Have fun! Play nice! ;>

clorophilla

Well, so... I can add the last minut pic.
It can't miss this kind of shadow for this collection
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=92233

five

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=92351

Qsilv

oookay, folks.... here it comes.... with my apologies for being later than I'd predicted. I actually thought I had a pretty clear idea of who it would be, just needed to narrow it down a tiny bit more based on one last look at the pictures themselves in full size...

So I started going through them this morning, jotting notes on all of 'em for the final commentary.... and suddenly realized it was anything BUT a simple choice!

How on earth did such a difficult exercise produce such a harvest??

15 artists (granted, a couple were dragged here not exactly on their own) not including me

38 pieces (plus the two examples I gave and 2 of my own new ones) and all of them gave me such pleasure! THANK you!

Special thanks to Shanley who early on offered a link to a whole article on the intricacies of shadow.

I'll just say flat out that there are a handful I haven't been able to get out of my mind... don't need to look back in here to remember them. Among those are stevedover's moonlight cottage and gebbeth, and Clorophilla's eclipse! But oh those apples... the still lifes... oh just any figure that stood starkly... lol...

Since I can't easily get away with splintering the silly thing 3 ways, much less 5 or 15, I'm hereby exercising my right to be utterly arbitrary, passing the baton to...

marg ! ...for that combination of shadows & reflections--

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=91044 "casting shadows"

five

Good choice. Congrats, Marg.

marg

waaahh ???

clorophilla

Although this challeng is well gone, I'd like to add my last pics, because the aim was mainly to achieve a good result on shadows...

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=99414
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=99474