1. These activities helped me learn a lot about painting; I hadn't done much of it before this project. I learned that paints are pretty easy to blend if you have a wet brush, that you can make textures in a lot of ways, and that there are certain ways to make colors more muted, darker, or warmer/cooler.
2. I think the tint, shade and tone exercise will be most useful for my painting. My reference photo has a lot of blues in varying shades, so knowing how to get to specific blues using black and white is useful. 3. I learned the most from the color matching exercise, because it helped me start viewing colors as just a bunch of primary mixed together. I figured out how to make colors more or less saturated, darker, and lighter. 4. Brown is generally made by a combinations of the three primary colors (red, blue, and yellow). Usually the best way to get to brown is to take a secondary color (orange, purple or green) and mix it with its complementary color, which is a primary color. This will result in a brownish shade, then add colors you need to make it the correct hue. 5. To tone down a color, you generally just have to add the color's complementary color, which is the color across from your color on the color wheel.
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Above, left to right: Pen drawing, charcoal drawing, and pencil drawing. I think the most helpful warmup for me was the blind contour face. It really helped me start viewing complex images such as faces as just shapes that are all mashed together. It was pretty challenging, and the outcome isn't exactly great to look at, but it was fun and it really helped me later in the unit. Definitions:
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The artist that I chose to talk about is named Maja Wrońska. She lives and works in Warsaw, Poland as an architect and freelance illustrator. She has a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Warsaw University of Technology, and she is best known for her colorful watercolor paintings of European architecture. She started out by selling her artwork on sites such as Society6, but has grown a large following, including over 25,000 followers on Instagram. Her work is featured on her website, http://majawronska.com/ .
Maja Wrońska’s art is inspiring to me because of her amazing attention to detail and ability to capture a piece of complex architecture with watercolor paints, which I personally find extremely hard to work with. Her use of color is also extremely impressive- she uses lots of bright colors and varying shades, which adds a great deal of depth to her art. Overall, I greatly appreciate and am inspired by her immense attention to detail and ability to manipulate colors. Additionally, it’s interesting to me that she paints architecture and is an architect as well- it makes me wonder if she is able to portray the tiny details in well-known structures so well because she understands how it is put together. This principle could also be applied to someone who studied human anatomy and is therefore very good at painting or otherwise portraying people- understanding the science and structure behind something must make it easier to paint or draw. |
AuthorLayla Ballinger Archives
January 2020
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