HUE ARE YOU?
For this project you begin with the first segment which is the Achromatic Color Chart. Achromatic meaning: relating to differences of light and dark; the absence of hue and its intensity. Started by making two vertical pages of charts, 1½ inch squares that are five rows across, 7 columns down
neatly on 9” x 12” or 11” x 14” Bristol paper with a light pencil line. Then on the first five rows you go from left to right from lightest ( white ) to darkest (black) and then proceed to do the same with chromatic values but making sure they match the hues of the achromatic. Chromatic:pertaining to the presence of color. One in cool colors one in warm. This really helped me when creating my self portraits and the red hot and bezold!! This was actually pretty hard to get the colors to match the achromatic hues.
Red Hot and Bezold
This was supposed to be project with a landscape including something geometric with the rest organic shapes. I found this really cool picture of a house in complete solitude in the mountains with a bunch of yellow flowers and thought the flowers, house, lake, and mountain were so fun looking to paint. This project confused me a little bit but watching my classmates and communicating with my teacher really helped me. The objective being the creation of six postcard-sized paintings exploring various color theories with specific acrylic paint palettes. For this the use of supplies such as primary colors like ultramarine blue, cadmium red and yellow, along with titanium white. Other colors including earth tones, yellow ochre (as yellow), burnt sienna (as red), burnt umber. This was our first real painting with 6 small detailed paintings! Split 6 ways you paint the first one as seen in the photograph with the same colors. For the Analogous: I chose to paint the landscape using an analogous color palette that expressed a warm emotion by using warm analogous colors ( red, red-orange, orange-yellow) using both the actual or physical texture of the paint (thick!) and implied or visual texture. I chose to incorporate dirt into my clouds in this. For the third one you needed split complimentary colors such as red, blue-green, and yellow green. For the Bezold I chose violet orange and green and outlined one in black and one in white to show how drastic one outline color change can effect the entirety of the painting. For the contrasting colors one I chose to do blue and violet at the top and in the lake whereas warm can be seen as the house (red and orange) and the grass (burnt Sienna) with a touch of blue in the windows with the words creation on it which was a requirement.
