COLOR

Last night students drew from individual still life arrangements.

Ashley Garr

Ashley's drawing is mostly a complementary color scheme (red-violet and yellow-green). The objects are arranged in a triangle bringing diagonals to the composition. The entire paper has been addressed creating directed light that gradually recedes into the background.

Jacob Lockler

Jacob's drawing evokes a scene from film noir. The lighting is very focused and direct capturing an air of suspense and intrigue. In addition, the objects lend themselves to the narrative. Each item is rich with symbolism and metaphor.

COLOR: Dice and balls

Last night began with a discussion on Color, Color Schemes and the applications of color pencils.The three examples below exhibit a layered and even rendering as opposed to a more expressive application. Ashley's drawing illustrates a strong sense of light. The space has depth and the forms are dimensional. Bret's drawing has a "retro" look with the dull, faded colors of vintage illustration. And lastly, Molly's drawing is very dynamic image with bold, electric, contrasting and complementary colors.

Ashley Garr

Bret Hardesty

Molly Gallagher

COLOR: Dice and Balls

Jack Ryan

Last night we began class with a discussion on color schemes and some of the technical considerations when working with colored pencils on black paper in particular. Everyone drew from a simple still life arrangement of a ball supported on a plastic letter or number and a die. In the drawing above, Jack has very skillfully located complementary colors. The orange letter is surrounded by blue and the green die is encircled in red. All of which are placed on a surface of analogous colors spanning across the color wheel moving left to right with cool colors to warm. In addition his mark-making on the sphere addresses the cross-contours by swirling out from the highlight. In contrast, the horizontal strokes on the ground plane reinforce the flatness of the table top.

COLOR PENCILS: Dice and Balls

Jay Odenthal

Leah Lehr

Last night students began working with color pencils. Before drawing we briefly discussed color schemes and the properties of color and working with color pencils in particular as opposed to paint. The drawings above illustrate two different approaches.
Jay, at the top, has taken a more layered and expressive method of applying color. Notice how subtle accents of red in the yellow and blues and reds in the violet help to unify the composition by relating to each other and the background as well.
Leah's drawing is more tonal and objective in her rendering. She ,as well, has balanced the colors unifying the space and objects. Her rendering with soft contours accented in white rather than black has captured the soft, foam composition of the dice. In addition, both drawings have used the black of the paper well, drawing around the cast shadows and darker tonalities.