SUMMER FUN & Adding Spice to Painting

SUMMER FUN
Watercolor - 11x14

Spice in a painting is an area of contrast. Contrast can help create movement of the viewer's eye around the painting. 

Spice or contrast are any opposites. Warm/cool, intense/dull, soft edge/hard edge, thick/thin, detail/out of focus, light/dark. Don't over do them, a little contrast can go along way. Spice placed all over the painting will not have as much impact as a few well placed areas of high contrast.