This is a half-hour traditional-media pencil and gouache sketch in my 5 x 8 Moleskin, with a little digital finish thrown in. In the original, the model's left arm didn't read right. So for the first time ever, I took a picture of the painting with my iPad camera, imported the image into the Procreate… Continue reading Mixing It Up
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Color Studies
Now for the real fun—I hope. After all those squares à la Josef Albers, this exercise is more along the lines of a real picture (exercises are from David Hornung's book, “Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers”—see previous posts). The parameters are to use 6 or more colors, each twice, in order to get… Continue reading Color Studies
Color Theory—Two Colors As One
Here are my solutions for the exercise that calls for making two colors look like one. Each pair of small squares below a pair of big squares matches the small squares inside the bigger ones. This exercise turned out to be easier than I thought it would be. I think doing all the previous exercises… Continue reading Color Theory—Two Colors As One
Color Studies
After doing color studies to make one color look like two based on value, then on hue, then saturation, and finally all three, I came to the final exercise in this section of David Hornung's book, “Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers” (see previous posts). In this exercise, he asks you to make two… Continue reading Color Studies
Color studies: Making One Hue Look Like Two
Here are my attempts at making one color, the small inner square in the pictures above, look like two different colors, based on a difference in hue alone. I don't think I was very successful. In the top one, the left square looks redder than the right one. In the second example, the right small… Continue reading Color studies: Making One Hue Look Like Two
More Color Studies
This assignment in David Hornung's book Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers is to make one color look like two. The Inkpad app on my Ipad is perfect for this. It's really easy to make a template with two big squares and two small ones and then just copy it for each new attempt.… Continue reading More Color Studies
More Color Studies
This time the studies are painted in gouache (opaque watercolor), so as you can see a little cruder. But it's trickier to mix the paint instead of just moving some sliders in a computer program. Gouache, I'm finding, has it's own quirks. I can't use as much water as I do with watercolor and… Continue reading More Color Studies
Color Studies
These are the first color studies I've done based on David Hornung's book “Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers.” I started out intending to do the studies in gouache on paper, but I found that in the back of the book Hornung includes a section on doing some of the studies digitally. A… Continue reading Color Studies
Color 2: Chromatic Grays
This is my studio table with materials recommended by David Hornung to use in doing his exercises (David Hornung, “Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers”–see an earlier post for more about the book). The palette and cups are from Hobby Lobby. They hold the eleven M. Graham gouache paints and cool dark and warm… Continue reading Color 2: Chromatic Grays
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