Color Light and Shade Painting
Can you, using the color theory described in the
classroom demonstration, produce one acrylic painting based on the simple still life
you and your partner set up? For the still life, use two or three of the color objects
provided and a different color background fabric. Set up your objects so that
some of the shadows cross from one color background to another. Using acrylic colors, lightly sketch out the general shapes of your objects
using a thin, light color paint (so you can easily cancel out
mistakes). Begin building up the form and mass of your objects using a variety
of transparent colors seeing if the light and shade shows through from the black and white layer. Emphasize and even exaggerate the light and shade you observe in the
scene. DO NOT USE BLACK! To create darker tones use darker versions of the
object's local color or use additions of complimentary colors.
Basic Color Information:
Primary Subtractive Colors: Red, Blue, Yellow
Secondary Subtractive Colors: Orange, Green, Violet
Complimentary Colors (opposites): Red & Green, Blue & Orange, Yellow & Violet
When placed near each other they neutralize each other.
When mixed, complimentary colors neutralize each other.
Other information for further research:
The electromagnetic spectrum.
The mantis shrimp.
Claude Monet
French Impressionism
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