| Class
3 |
07/22/08 student
work demonstration |
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NOTES
on Color:
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| "Apple Squared" watercolor crayon |
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| "Iris Placque A" watercolor crayon
on masonite |
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| "Iris Placque B" watercolor crayon
on masonite |
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The
old theory goes that you can mix any color you want with the basic
three primaries. In practice this is not true. Most secondary colors
are very difficult to mix, and the best solution is to buy them.
Having said this, I also believe that mixing colors should be easy
and almost automatic when you are actually painting. My layout is
three of each primary, warm cool and center of each, with one or
two secondary colors between, and the earth colors off by themselves.
We make mud easily enough. Keeping the better mud colors separate
will at least slow down the process.
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| Process
& Imposed Forms |
We
will play with color examples in class. Think color selection in
your subject as you draw the composition and plan the painting.
It is usually easier to lay in accurate, but lighter colors to start,
defining edges and establishing gross composition. Next paint darker
high contrast areas defining edges. Leave colorful details until
last, to make them act as the satisfying climax to the painting
process and to keep them from being overwhelmed by larger items
which might be unbalanced otherwise.
The Golden Rectangle - at some point we begin to think of things
like optimum proportion, or as it has been called the perfect or
golden rectangle - based on the Fibanocci number series, adjacent
numbers describe various "perfect or golden rectangles"
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Work
in class
color charts
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Work
on the chachkies, shells, and color exercises. creating texture
- splatter and spray.
Demonstration
of color planning in the design of a piece. |
Homework
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"Fruit"
in watercolor crayon. Color mixing and the color chart. Work on
a small high key (bright colors) watercolor. Paper samples for paint
tests while painting. The Golden Rectangle & the Fibonocci series.
Two kinds of
homework: a painting outside of class, and WC sketches in the sketchbook. |
| Footnotes |
* In class demonstration
of gold leaf |
| Bibliography |
The
Elements of Color -- by Johannes Itten
Roger Burrows Images: The Ultimate Coloring Experience
-- by Roger Burrows
Interaction of Color by Josef Albers
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| Links |
Color
Theory links: Color
Matters, Color
Theory, Kodak
Digital Learning Center,
the golden rectangle
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Links:
for class notes www.jonraderjarvis.com/classes.htm
and email contact address jrj@jonraderjarvis.com
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