Two Fresh Paths to Painting: Color
Strategies and Content.
Introduce myself. Education, book, DVD
We will study the color strategies in
several ways to begin to internalize them. (Digital presentations,
finding and painting examples.)
We will explore how these strategies relate to content.
Why?
What takes a painting from being a Agreat
start@ or a pretty picture to being a finished and competitive
painting? It boils down to just 3 things. Color, Design and Content.
Today we will have time to cover two of these-color strategies
and content. Why?
1. By getting you colors under control
(at any stage of your painting) you unify your paintings and
provide a color dominance. These are the two most important design
principles.
2. Content means more that what is the
topic of your painting. It means putting yourself into your work
through personal style, personal subject matter and an almost
intangible personal means of expression. In truth, Content is
everything.
Discussions for the day
What is content?
Content quotes.
Folk Art digital presentation
Homework. Louise Cadillac article.
Write and memorize an elevator speech.
Handouts
Elements and Principles of Design. They are Nouns and Verbs,
essentially.
Web of interaction that is extremely complex, but all of the
principles relate to color, one of our topics for the day.
But you should have them within easy reach.
Ways of creating a focal point. Some of them depend beautifully
on a color strategy.
Color Strategies
AM
Color Strategy Handout.
There really seem to be only EIGHT COLOR STRATEGIES
Color strategies often denote moods and content, which we will
discuss in more detail this afternoon.
I first came across these color strategies
in Miles Batt=s self-published book, The Complete Guide to Creative
Watercolor, 1992.
Review them with the class.
Pp presentation:
Show actual paintings
Find examples of the strategies in magazines
and paste them onto a piece of watercolor paper.
Do two or three small paintings in different
color strategies on the same piece of watercolor paper. Try more
at home.
PM
DISCUSSION:
What is content?
Content quotes. Handout
PP Presentation: Folk Art and Content
Draw your personal objects on your Arches
paper.
Choose a color strategy that fits the
mood of how you feel about these objects.
Write this mood on the tape holding down your painting.
Choose a color strategy that is not too
far afield from the local colors of your personal objects, but
still reflects a certain mood.
OR go wild. Be careful not to totally
confuse your viewers, though. Blue suns just don't work. But
be as adventuresome as you can.
Mid-Afternoon:
Show tweaking a painting to achieve a
color strategy.
Teach correction technique. ARCHES ONLY.
Need painting to tweak.
Tape and supplies
CLASS EXHIBITION
Homework: Louise Cadillac article. Handout
Write and memorize an elevator speech