Week 9

Chapter 11: Light's changing show
Serial Paining: creation of multiple plein air painting studies of the same subject under different lighting conditions or the making of a set of closely related studies.
Storyboard parts of your daily life with color.


210 good review of book

Tuesday tips:

Push it! always push character poses for more clear line of action
Quick bold gesture, Shapes/ angles, Volumes
Line of action is important
Dominate character higher on screen, use line of action, closed stance = lower open stance = higher, Forward= power recoiled = defensive.
Don't mull over anatomy design, first focus on acting, the mood of the pose

Week 8

No Reading.

Week 7

Chapter 6: Color Relationships

Monochromatic Schemes: Taking a single color and only using the values of that one color. 

Warm and Cool
Think about how warm and cool colors have psychological effects like blues are sad and yellows are happy. 

Colored Light Interactions:
When two colros shine on one thing they mix and create new color behaviors on the object
Additive mixing is the blending of color in the eye rather than the pigments.
Subtractive mixing. 
Complementary shadow color


Triads:
A scheme is composed of three basic colors

Color Accent: a small area of color that is noticeably different. Good attention grabbers.

Tuesday Tips :
THink of basic color you want to use, make dfferent combinations of the same hue but change the saturation and value. thumb nail it out
Use a color anchor to plan out the rest of your colors with different color combos
90/10 rule: uses contrast in value, hue, or saturation. 10% should be the most important part of your piece.
70/20/10 contrast with an accent, this can also be split into smaller parts of the piece
Split complementary
Filter-pixelate-moaic= resaturate the colors for a color palette
Gliter: local color, darker texture, lighter texture (dodge), stars
thumbnail, color comp, clean up drawing form color comp, refine

Week 6

Color and Light Chapter 4: Elements of Color
The Munsell system is a different version of the color wheel with 10 separations. making it more equal.

RGB color is the primary colors of light as opposed to pigment.
Yurmby Wheel  is universal color wheel.

Chroma and value

Different colors have different peak chroma values. 

local color: the color of the surface of an object as it appears close up in white light

Greys and Neutrals: opposite of intense colors, actually make bright colors look brighter when used together.

Green Problem: Make green from blue and yellow pigments and get rid of your greens. Avoid monotony vary the mixutres from tree to tree or leaf to leaf. Smuggling reds. Prime the canvas with pinks or reds so they show through here and there to enliven the greens

Gradation: Colors that transition from each other smoothly.
Adding white to a color makes a tint

Chapter 2: Sources of Light

Direct Sunlight: The sun, the blue sky, and the reflected light from the ground

Overcast Light:Color appear purer here and the constrast isn't extremely high

Window light: This simplifies the shadow work

Candle light and Firelight: They act different depending on if the sun is up or not and be sure to remember the fall off depending on how bright the sources are. Yellow orange color usually.

Indoor Electric Light:
Incandescent and Fluorescent: Relative brightness, hardness or softness, and color cast.
Hard light is more directional and dramatic. Softlight emanates from a wider area. Incandesent lights are strongest in orange and red wavelenghts. Meaning reds look good and blues look dead.

Streetlights and Night Conditions:
Moonlight: bluegrey colors and orange flame based light.

Luminescence:
Colors gradate from one hue to another
Add the glowing effects of luminesence last to a painting.

Hidden Light Sources:
This can make a painting more dynamic if it isn't obvious where the source is in the painting.

Tuesday Tips:
Stylizing an object, sketch it out a ton but paint from your study not from life.
Making a series from a painting, make thumbnails based on painting, see how the thumbnails look together. make a color comp using only colors from the painting. Finish them.