SpRING Term week 5
Date: 13th & 14th February 2024
Tutor: Siân & Rob
Tutor Led
what to bring
picture of the week
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 bought 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?
TOPIC of the Week: Continuation of 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.
This week we are looking at mixing dark colours. When do we combine contrasting colours to produce a darker tone? How do we achieve this without changing the viewers perception of colour?
Quote of the week
“A work of art that did not begin in emotion is not art.'“
Paul Cezanne
Gallery of the week
Tate St.Ives
The Tate
This week we’d like to draw attention to The Tate, a group of galleries including Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and RIBA North, and our nearest, Tate St.Ives.
In case you’ve ever wondered, The Tate does indeed have a link to the sugar of the same name. In 1889 Henry Tate, who made his fortune as a sugar refiner, gifted his art collection to the nation and provided funding for the first Tate Gallery.
The collection covers a wide of artistic styles, exploring 500 years of British Art, including contemporary artwork that stretches our minds. These days it’s probably not unfair to say that a lot the artwork you find there is anything but sweet! Tate Modern in particular hits the press with artwork that initiates heated discussion. On our recent visit we saw “The Red Moon’ by El Anatsui (my photos left) which left us bemused, especially as we entered the gallery at the wrong’ end of the exhibition, and did not discover the Red Moon until some time into our visit.
The website it huge, and offers a wide range of resources for us as artists. It is absolutely amazing. Please take a look and some time to explore it!
Click on ‘Art and Artists’ under the site tile, and you will find an enormous wealth of information, and the opportunity to over the collection online. We particularly like the sections:
Art Terms. A dictionary with some very useful explanations of art terminology.
Create Like an Artist which features some good tuition videos, encouraging you to have a go yourselves.
Last updated: 11.12.23