—Lesson Plan—
It is important to really see and understand what is happening with light in order to make realistic pictures.
I used to teach in a basement and we had little windows above our tables. I would take a white and a black piece of construction paper and hold them up to the window side-by-side. When I turned the black so the sun fell directly upon it and I turned the white so that the sun was behind it, the black would become lighter than the white.
This is a great demonstration that teaches the students to match the color and value to what they see, not what they remember or think.
Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors. —John Ruskin
