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COLOUR INVESTIGATIONS
When your applying colour in painting it is good to see every stroke you make is shaping some are area of your composition. Here is a few tasters we will hopefully get through in the day. It is not as complicated as the list suggests.
A quick overview of the colour wheel. 3 colour system Analogous colours
complementary colours etc
COLOUR STRATEGIES & INCLINATIONS
Paint: Painting Techniques Alla Prima Colour: Colour Painting Techniques
1) Structural Colour: building an image with colour blocks
thinking like a collagist
reducing the image to flat shapes local colour versu shadows in still life Spatial colour in Landsape
Structural versus Organic Shapes
3) Basic colour Harmonies-striking the right Cord
Integrating Colour & Image Complementary Harmonies Analogous Sequences Stationary Relationships Cinematic Colour
2) Figure Ground Relationships/ Making Space Work for you
Colour Grounds
Tonal Grounds
Figure Ground Relationships Colour fields
4) Colour as Gesture
Gestural Abstraction Action painting Revisited Gestural Realism
5) Colour & Light
Chiaroscuro Impressionism
6)Expressionism
History
Figure Distortion
Symbolic Colour
Narrative Imagery
Spatial Fantasy
The Heroic Image
Approaches to drawing Painting