This is a summary thus far of what we've been doing in my other class, called "Color Design".We started out exploring the medium we were going to work in - Gouache. This is like watercolors except that you can get an opaque quality to it. Here is only one of the assignments we did in this exploration stage. This is a color spiral using all the 18 colors in our Gouache set.
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We were to not repeat any colors. He wanted to see all the greys and browns we could produce. It was tedious at first, but a cool finish in the end. I gained experience in mixing these Gouache paints and seeing the range of colors I could get.
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"Meadowlake Way"
Our home in Colorado
1. Seasonal Plate Series: Monochromatic House
The main assignments in this class are going to be this series of "plate" paintings. We will do 5 paintings. This first one is a Monochromatic (one color) depiction of a house. We were required to have the following items, and have references to work from.
- One color choice (I picked Burnt Sienna) and blend it with grey, white and black for the monochromatic effect.
- House
- Mountains in distance
- Trees
- Garden
- Path
(Monochromatic)
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2. Seasonal Plate Series: Winter House
- House from a new point of view
- Primary colors of Red, Yellow, Blue and Green had to be included somehow
- NO BLUE SNOW - only earthy tones with whites.
- Snowman, icicles, holiday lights
- Garden and path
- Distant mountains with not a blue sky...
(Winter House)
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3. Seasonal Plate Series: Spring House
(day one initial drawing)
- New point of view of house
- Color scheme must include pastel colors of pink, green, yellow and blue
- Three types of flowers included
- Distant mountains with blue sky and clouds
- Garden, path included
(Spring House: In Progress)
