Class started with Dick talking us through, and demonstrating, how he builds a painting as “a conversation,” responding to what he sees, unifying disjointed areas of color, “addressing issues” of unresolved [too raw; primary or secondary] color, and choosing what to leave and what to emphasize. He explores and experiments and asks, “What if?” because…
Critique of last week’s exercises Illusions of white and colored spotlights Watercolorists have an advantage over artists in other media when it comes to shadows. Since light affects all objects in a scene equally, you can mix a single batch of color for your shadows and apply wherever needed. Dick loves using light and shadow…
Homework for this week is exercises 5-7 on the assignment sheet from last week (Visual Phenomena & Painting Strategies): Illusion of a white spotlight; Illusion of a colored spotlight; 3D still life/landscape with cast shadow and ambient light. An example of exercise 7 in work is shown below. If you’re having trouble visualizing where the…
We critiqued class solutions for exercises 1-4 Paint the illusion of two transparent films over a colored shape. Using the identical format to the first assignment, paint the illusion of a white veil over the original colored shapes. Think of the veil as a piece of tracing paper. Create the illusion of 4 white index…
Strategies for painting films and veils, illustrated and annotated!
We started the third class with a critique of the homework assignments – layering rectangles, aiming for more nuanced and complex colors and interactions – “fine French cuisine”. [gview file=”https://dicknelsoncolor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/WC-Painting-Strategies.pdf”] [gview file=”https://dicknelsoncolor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/VanBoundariesWC.pdf”] [gview file=”https://dicknelsoncolor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ColorReview.pdf”]
On Oct 25, 2012, at 2:47 PM, V wrote: Hi Karen, I am back and ready to put my brain into “art world”. I know it is probably impossible to repeat and explain what the class was about but could you give me a little review and direction on what we are supposed to work…
We had a long critique session, looking closely at each practice piece and making observations. At the end of class, Dick told us, “These are terrible! You’ll look back in future weeks and realize it. These show the origins too much [cyan, magenta, yellow].” And he assigned us to do it again, with new eyes,…