SpRING Term week 6
Date: 27th & 28th February 2024
Tutor: Siân
Free painting
What to Bring
Your usual paints materials and any work-in-progress (WIP). If you have a smart phone or tablet please bring that along too this week. It doesn’t even need to be charged!
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: the theme for the term
This week we have a new way of evaluating tonal contrasts in your subject and your artwork. Please have your phone or tablet with you.
Quote of the week
“Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.”
Paul Cezanne 1839-1906
book of the week
The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London.
The Mall Galleries
The Mall Galleries is an exciting venue which you may well have missed, given that your attention was probably drawn by a rather large building at the other end of the road.
Mall Galleries is home to the Federation of British Artists, a visual arts charity supporting artists since 1961, and is well worth a visit. Today, the FBA is composed of nine Art Societies that present their Annual Exhibition each year at Mall Galleries, including the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour
We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming exhibition of
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 212th Exhibition
28 Mar 2024 - 13 Apr 2024
10am-5pm £5, booking is not required. This promises to be an exhibition of extremely high standard, and is certain to be very inspiring!
The Mall Galleries website is excellent for exploring the work of contemporary artists -do take a look!
Last updated: 11.12.23