Aim: To introduce reflected light and its effect on shadows and shading. To develop the use of shading for a textural effect.

Materials: The sketch pad, HB and 4B pencil, eraser

While the students are thus occupied hand out these prepared theory sheets.
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Sitting in the garden I asked a person if the shadow cast by a tree would be lighter on a sunny day, than it would, at a similar time, on a cloudy day.
'Does it really matter?' he shrugged, as he poured himself another glass of my most expensive imported red.
'That depends.' I replied, 'one day you might want to paint a shadow.'

'The grisaille legacy' .......
'I met a man of black and white who had sadly lost his way.
Wringing his hands, he said to me, "but all I see is grey".'

If a cup was placed in a spotlight the shadow it cast would be as black as the surrounding darkenss while the shading on the cup should move from a grey at the 'turning point' to a similar blackness.

However, if there was some other light in the room the 'black' shadow would look out of place - as shown above. The reason for this is that in our normal life we mostly don't live under spotlights. Usually, there are many sources of 'reflected' light around us. In a room or outside our shadows are rarely completely black as they are modified by the 'general lightness' of the day - or the room.