Lesson 5     SunFlowers

 ( Lessons will be out of order until I'm caught up posting back lessons... my apologies. Lesson 6 Painting a Horse will continue in 3 parts after Sunflowers Lesson 5)

Lesson 5 is held  July 20th on location at Oasis.

We will use sunflowers and other arrangements out of my yard. I will have 3-4 arrangements set up. We will be using pallette knives and brushes. We will use a Split palette of warm and cool colors. This is a Van Gogh palette of colors to buzz color against color. 

Split Palette: 

Yellow:  Cadmium Yellow Deep

               Lemon Yellow or Cadmium Yellow Light

Red:    Vermillion

            Cadmium Red Deep

Blue:   Cerulean Blue

            Ultramarine Blue

Green:  Viridian Green

            Green Oxide

Brown:  Burnt Umber

             Raw Umber

Sample Palette

Red Lake

Vermillion

Cadmium Yellows

Ultramarine Blue

Cobalt Blue

Cobalt Violet

Emerald Green

Viridian Green

Lead White (Flake White)

Earth Colors (Siennas, Umbers, Ochre)

Tue, 7:11 PM

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Susan Sprigg In the Zone Oil Painters Notes

Ideally  read and print out these notes and bring them to class. 

Show

 Look up these Artists and Identify the line they used in their compositions.

Delacroix:   See how he often uses  parenthesis type of composition to group his elements which draws attention to the area inside the parenthesis.

Van Gogh:  Sometimes he painted directionally using a circular approach to colors and brush stroke to emphasize the focal points in his work.

  

In painting Sunflowers today quickly do your thumbnails both line and value studies. I will check them. Consider laying down your direction by using your brush stroke direction to match your line.

Some Additional Ways to Developing Focal Points besides darkest dark against lightest light:

1. If your painting is an analogous color scheme:  Opposite (contrasting) color used in the focal areas to draw attention.

2. If your painting is a contrasting:  Analogous color used.

3. In this particular lesson, Painting Sunflowers,  try moving toward your palette spectrally – primary colors first, then introduce secondary colors. 

4. Pure color is more opaque.  Add a little white for it to be reflective. Adding white will diminish it's focal quality, decrease chroma and help with distance between the stronger pigment and the one diluted with white.

Some info about the temperature of the colors we are using: 

Cadmium Yellow Pale is the  cool of Cadmium Yellow Medium.

Vermillion is hot whereas  Lakes are cool. Alizarin Crimson is a Crimson Lake color.

Cerulean is warmer, Turquoise is warmer ( has yellow in it).

Cobalt  is cooler than Cerulean. Cobalt starts moving toward the violets.

Ultramarine is cooler than Cobalt.

Chrome Greens & light  greens are warmer with more movement toward yellow.

Viridian is cooler with more movement toward blue.

If an object has a warm surface color paint the shadows with  cooler colors(dark blues/dark greens) and visa versa.

A Word  About Pointillism:

Van Gogh painted by using color to buzz the next color to it, instead of tone.  

Difference between pointillism and traditional painters is the tonal changes in the color.  There is no neutralizing of the colors (well, very little) in pointillism.  It is done by the color put down next to it and white (not black).

Today's Vocabulary: Local Color 

Local color is the overall color of your puzzle piece before changes by toning it, adding white in pointillism, or contrasting colors. 

Local color is also influenced not only by white, but by yellow, and orange used as a lesser white.