Painting 1 For Fine Arts Midterm: Due 3/12/14

We've gone over this in class, but thought I'd reiterate:

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match these colors as best you can- as long as you get within 80%, you're good...the only colors I used are ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow medium, cadmium red medium, and titanium white.

Rubric for Color Matching:

I will be grading these based on neatness (clean edges- you don't need to tape, but no stray brush marks), opacity (no transparent washes- solid blocks of color), and accuracy.

Due 3/12/14.

ALSO DUE: TRIAD PAINTING
The Triad will be a painting of the object you drew for the first assignment (this also pulls that assignment into the mix), done in a limited triadic color palette.

Rubric for Triad Painting:

I will be grading these on how well you stayed within the confines of the triad, and on the color range you were able to achieve using just these three colors.

Due 3/12/14.

A triadic color scheme uses any three colors that are equally spaced on the color wheel. Yes. you are using the primaries, but the color scheme you choose determines the mood and the harmony. So, for example, if you choose to paint with the purple, orange, green palette, those colors will dominate the color scheme of the painting. the primaries are there, but they don't dominate. In this painting, the triad being used is the primaries- red, yellow, and blue:

Here are some great examples of paintings done using a triadic color scheme- in this case, purple, orange, and green (and white, to tint or lighten):

here is the color scheme as seen on the color wheel:

and you can even push your range a bit just by turning your scheme towards the tertiaries:

Watercolor 1 Midterm: Due 3/10/14

MIDTERM: Neutral grey grid

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The primaries are on the left, their respective complementaries are on the right. The very middle square on each row is the actual neutral grey- an equal mix of both colors, the other squares gain more of the end colors as they move from the center. For example, the neutral grey of red and green gets redder as it shifts to the red, greener as it shifts to the green.

To do this I simply filled in my two end colors as cleanly as possible (change your water often!), then got the middle grey as accurately as I could. To use the red and green example again, I then layed down a light layer of red on the three squares shifting towards red, and a light green on the squares shifting towards green. The I layered the colors until I got the gradation correct. In other words, take your time and be systematic with this- you may not get it exact at first, just keep moving along and you'll get it.

The squares are an inch wide separated by a quarter inch. This way I was able to put 9 squares on a 12 inch wide piece of watercolor paper. You can measure it any way you want, as long as you have 9 squares.

Rubric:

grading on neatness, purity of color (no dirty primaries!) and convincing gradation.

Due 3/10/14

Painting 1 For Fine Arts: a Midterm heads-up

I'm pushing the midterm due date up to March 12 because of the snow days. I'll go over this in the beginning of class this week, but I just wanted to give you a heads up. The midterm consists of the color matching project below. We also still need to do the triad painting, which I am making due on the same date. 

The Midterm color-matching project:

The Triad Project:

The Triad will be a painting of the object you drew for the first assignment (this also pulls that assignment into the mix), done in a limited triadic color palette. For example, the painting below was done using only the colors above, plus white to tint. The triadic palette enables you to create paintings with built-in color harmony. I will go over all this in class, so don't stress! I just wanted to give you all a chance to digest what's coming up...

Watercolor 1: color wheel video & color triangle

Posting the color triangle for those of you who weren't in class and still need to do it- just do exactly as I've done here:

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Painting 1 for Fine Arts Snowday Reboot (again)

So here we go again. What I propose is this: let's continue with the homework assignment- bring what you have to class. We will have a group crit, but then we will skip painting these objects and jump right into the trompe l'oeil project. So bring in an object similar to the example above- keys, feather, whatever- something small enough that we can pin it to a board, like in this painting, and we will begin the trompe l'oeil painting. 

I know in the syllabus it also states that we will paint these on the canvases we stretch- disregard that, we will stretch canvas at a later date. Just bring in a surface to paint your trompe l'oeil project on (canvas panels, for example). Hopefully we will be able to begin...!

(Another) SNOWDAY! Painting 1 for Fine Arts: stay tuned...