Intermediate Homework 4/25/19 Variety

The potent sky scenes you all invented yesterday in class were individualistic, to be sure, but they also had a couple of features in common: saturated color and soft edges. Having spent some time now working with relatively thick paint and diffuse edges, let's practice using those features in some places and not in others, so your paintings display a range of qualities.

Here are a couple of Gerhard Richter's watercolors:

In this painting, the paper appears to have been dry everywhere, except for that pink shape at the top.

Here the opposite is true. Almost everything is soft edged.

And here there's a mix of edges that gives emphasis to the hard edged darks. Deciding deliberately what kind of edge you give to your shapes puts a powerful tool in your hands.
 Choose a photo from those below, or use one you find on your own, and adjust the edges as you please. You might try different versions that shift which edges are hard and which are soft.