Assignments and information about classes for the week of January 22nd.
January 23rd and 25th: We will be working with a limited palette, our first full class of painting. First, we will work on setting up a palette for four colors. Black, white, Indian red and Yellow Ocher. We will work on the high key / low contrast setup. If all goes well, February the 1st, Thursday, will be our last day on this first painting. Limited color palette assignment given on Thursday the 18th is due on Tuesday the 23rd.
Assignment: Do a value study of one of the paintings on the library page of this website. Use black and white oil paint on a small canvas, canvas board or primed paper. Spend as much time as you need establishing your drawing, then no more than 30 minutes painting in the values. Work quickly! Don’t worry about details try to get the values of the big shapes by simplifying try to use only five values. Adjust the values until they are accurate in relation to one another. Pay attention to the edges between values, if they are softer that means the values are closer, hard edges reflect a wider value jump. This assignment is due Thursday February 1st. As always, feel free to contact me if you have any questions.