2D: Colour Studies

Various colour mixing exercises done for 2D: colour translations core class.

I have quite a bit of painting under my belt, so I feel that to some extent I've been doing all these things without really being aware of them. It's always good to consciously practice them, though.

Plus, we used goauche, which is a medium I'm not familiar with at all, so I enjoyed learning to handle a new medium. It's really fast and opaque!

Value studies with lamp black and chromatic black

Goauche on bristol

Complementary colour pair studies 

Goauche on bristol

'Old Masters' colour palette with yellow ochre, burnt umber and payne's grey

Goauche on bristol

4"x6" colour studies: chromatic lights, chromatic darks, saturated, desaturated, colours I hate, colours I like

Goauche on bristol

(particularly proud of the lioness, which was painted from a photo I took at the zoo earlier this year.)

Colour constancy studies
Goauche on bristol

Based off photographs of the same scene (view from my balcony!), taken during different times of day and under different weather conditions.

They're focused on the idea that colours change according to their surroundings (duh) but because we see them in relation to each other, we are able to recognise them even under different lightings.