SpRING Term week 1
Date: 9th & 10th January 2024
Tutor: Siân & Rob
Free Painting
what to bring
Bring along your usual painting materials. It will be useful to have a sketchpad or some rough paper on which you can draw/make notes.
We’d be happy to see any paintings or sketches you have done since you were last with us.
We would also like to hear any ideas you have for what you would like to achieve this term. Please bring along any relevant reference material you have gathered for these ideas.
Picture of the week
Each week a new picture will be presented in full colour, and two different B & W versions created using the editing software available in an iPhone. Use these pictures as an exercise to improve your understanding of how colour and tone relate to one another. Tips below :)
TIPS
1 Look at the coloured image.
Break down the image into areas of light, mid and dark colours. Where are the lightest colours? Where are the darkest colours? Where are the colours in between?
2 NOW look at the B & W versions ( Scroll through the gallery using the arrows at the side of the picture)
Break down the image into areas of light, mid and dark tones. Where are the lightest lights? Where are the darkest darks? Where are the mid-tones?
3 Now ask yourself these questions:
Where are the darkest dark tones? Are they in the same place as the darkest colours?
Where are the lightest light tones? Are the highlights in the same place as the lightest colours?
Where are the mid-tones? Does their placement in the picture match where you thought the mid-colours were?
When you first look at the picture, are you aware of whether your eye is drawn first to the lights, the darks or somewhere in between?
Did you eye follow the same path across the image in the three different versions?
Were there areas where what you perceived to be two distinct colours merged into one patch where viewed in B & W?
Were hard edges in colour that became soft edges when looked tonally?
THIS Week: INTRODUCTION to the theme for the term
This term we will be looking again at tone. We will be looking (hard!) at how drawing can increase our awareness of tone. We will be also be considering tonal values across an image within a composition, and ways of increasing our understanding of the relationship between tone and colour.
We will also be looking at the challenges presented by the Picture of the Week, and how to approach the exercise to get the most out of it.
Quote of the week
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
Edgar Degas
Source : Denver Art Museum
Gallery of the week
The National Gallery, Trafalgar SquareLondon WC2N 5DN
The National Gallery
On May 10 2024 The National Gallery begins its celebrations of 200 years of bringing exhibiting paintings for the general public to view! The home of many, many well known paintings that come to life seen in real life in a way that cannot be reproduced in a book the National is always worth a visit.
The website a well worth a look too ! Browse to see:
Details of upcoming exhibitions and events
‘Highlights of the Collection’, and
virtual tours of the galleries.
The feature “Picture of the Month’, which includes an informative video giving interesting information about the painting.
a search facility of art works and artists
the gallery shop
opportunity to become a member, which includes additional access to online features, such as Members Talks and films.
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