Kathyglennstudios
  • Home
  • Artist Statement and Bio
  • kmsGlenn blog
  • Daily Paintings
  • Gallery
  • TeddyRBoston Bags
  • Confident Color Class
  • Looking back
  • Daily Paintings
  • Confident Color Class

Contrasting Color

2/16/2014

0 Comments

 
Picture
For the last three weeks we have been looking at  how the artist can use color to make statements more powerful by using contrasts.

These include the interplay of complementary color, warm and cools, color values, and intensity.

Let's just take one quick look at each of these::

Complementary colors when placed next to each other cause the eye to center on the place where they meet.  Using a great deal of one color and adding a small amount of the complement will help direct your viewer to the place you find most interesting.

Warm and cool colors, when played against each other create interest within the picture.  Once again, a large amount of one temperature with a contrasting area of its opposing temperature will draw the eye.

Color values contrast in the same way that black and white do.

An intense color - from the outside of the color wheel - will interplay with gray or neutralized colors to direct to the point of interest. 

This week we will begin by creating a color scheme for your next painting.  Color schemes help organize your work so it flows together and you don't become lost in your painting.  Often we work adding color to our work and at some point become lost without knowing exactly where to go next.  Having a scheme will help eliminate this.  

This doesn't mean that you are locked into what you originally planned.  But it will serve as a map that will help direct you to where you are going next.







0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Author

    Kathy Glenn
    Art Center

    Picture
    Picture

    Archives

    April 2018
    March 2018
    June 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    September 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    June 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    June 2013
    January 2013
    October 2012
    September 2012
    April 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011

    Picture

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly