Assignment 2: Stage 4 Colour moods and themes – exercise 1

this exercise is to discover my “intuitive responses to colour, [my] likes and dislikes, [my] personal colour ‘feel'”. in exercise 1, I had to paint colours to match 3 pairs of words.

active | passive :

bright | dull :

sad | happy :

Assignment 2: Stage 3 Recording colours accurately – exercise 4

this exercise involved colour mixing and matching of real objects.

the first one I did was (half of) a pair of pliers, using watercolours:
a photo of the original

watercolours painting

the second one was a lemon, using guache paints:

months later (in August 2014), after doing a couple of short online classes with Carla Sonheim and in this case Fred Lisaius, and after doing many more paint and colour exercises in my sketch book / work book, I had painted “A pair of pears” which I think is a similar exercise to this one. I think this is much improved — I’m finally getting the hang of watercolours.

this is the original picture:

and this is the watercolour painting I made. I used new Schmincke and Winsor & Newton pan watercolours and mixed the colours. Fred explained how to do the colours in layers and had use use “wet on wet” technique. at times this was causing me problems, so I returned to Carla’s “wet on dry” technique and then I found a way of getting more control of the blending once the paint had dried a bit. I like the painting so much I’ve dropped it off at the framers to be framed.

Assignment 2: Stage 3 Recording colours accurately – exercise 3

This exercise was similar to the previous one, though we used a postcard (or image) instead of a piece of fabric. we had to mix the colours and paint them to record the colours used in the image/postcard

this was done using watercolours also, as it’s all I had with me at the time:

Assignment 2: Stage 3 Recording colours accurately – exercise 2

For this exercise, we had to find a piece of fabric, stick it to a piece of paper, then mix colours to match the fabric border and paint next to the fabric to try extend the fabric colours onto the page, seamlessly.

I enjoyed this exercise. though the hardest part was mixing enough colour to use on the whole border. I found that I had to mix some of them more than once and then ran out of paint. so, it’s not perfect. but it was a good exercise to try an match the colours as closely as possible

here’s the fabric and painted border. I used watercolours at first as this is all I had with me

here’s the paper I used to test the colour mixing:

Assignment 2: Stage 3 Recording colours accurately – exercise 1

This exercise involved mixing colours—from page 62 of class notes:

You can dilute colours with white to obtain paler tints.

• You can mix colours with black, which will take the light out of them and make them
  much duller.
• You can mix colours with grey which will make them less intense.
• You can mix pure colours with their complementary colour to make all the darker,
  duller tones of a particular colour. It is often better to mix these darker in-between colours in this way rather than using black. Black seems to deaden colour, whereas colours toned down by their complementary seem to have much more life about them.mixing colours — watercolours
  I spent a while on this exercise.

  initially I used watercolours as this is all I had available to me at the time.

   

   

   

  mixing colours — guache
  then, later I repeated the exercise with gouche paints.

   

   

  for some of them I mixed the colours directly onto the paper:

A2: Stage 2 Colour perception – exercise 2

In this exercise we had to cut different coloured squares and put smaller grey coloured squares in the centre of each larger square.

A2: Stage 2 Colour perception – exercise 1

In this exercise we had to cut different coloured squares and put smaller squares of a single colour in the centre of each larger square. to see how placing one colour against another can change the perception of the colours.

Assignment 2: Stage 1 Introduction and preparation

In this exercise we were introduced to the colour wheel as well as tone and saturation. We had to paint / create colour wheels. it was a good chance to practice mixing primary colours to make secondary colours.

making a colour wheel
primary colours:

primary & secondary colours:

painted onto a coaster: