SpRING Term week 7
Date: 5th & 6th March 2024
Tutor: Siân & Rob
Free painting
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: 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.
Quote of the week
“With colour one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.”
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
GALLERY of the week
The Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of the Arts
The Royal Academy, run by leading artists and architects for 250 years, has an enormous wealth of information to inspire you.
In particular we would like you to visit the page ‘RA Art and Artists’ found under ‘Art and Artists’ in the main menu. They have recently updated the site, so you can explore the collections in the usual familiar ways, or via the new visual search. try this last one! Click on an image and up pops a larger image, more information and a link to similar work. It’s a visually exciting website!
Of course, the RA is the home of the famous ‘Summer Exhibition’. Anyone can submit a painting, yes, even you, though competition is fierce. Don’t let that put you off though. After a visit you will realise that the range of artwork exhibited is enormous, and you might well agree with us that it covers the depths and the heights of the British art scene. And it is very freeing - it’s art, there is no ‘right way’! to do it! Have fun, paint what you like, enjoy what you do.
Last updated: 11.12.23