Colour Discovery 12

Colour Discovery Twelve - Colour for Humans

Theory:

• Definition of genre

Colour Properties

Colour and Composition

• Colour schemes

• Contrasts

• Golden Mean

• Harmony

• Main Point of Focus

• Rhythm

• Pattern

• Position on canvas

• Tonal Range

• Temperature

Modelling with Colour

• Highlights

• Logical Modelling

• Perspective

• Reflections

• Shadows

• Chiaroscuro

• Scale

• Proportion

• Tones

Colour as a Subject

• Psychology

• Symbolism

List of paintings:

Part 1 - Portraits

1. Male Portrait 1
   Agnolo di Cosimo Bronzini – Portrait of a Young Man (1550)

2. Male Portrait 2
   Théodore Géricault – Study of a Model for the Raft of the Medusa (1818/19)

3. Male Self Portrait 1
   Rembrandt – Self Portrait at age 63 (1669)

4. Male Self Portrait 2
   Vincent Van Gogh – Self Portrait (1889)

5. Female Portrait 1
   Pierre-August Renoir – Two Sisters (On The Terrace) (1881)

6. Female Portrait 2
   Craig Wylie - Kelly Holmes (2012)

7. Female Self Portrait 1
   Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun – Self Portrait in a Straw Hat (1782)

8. Female Self Portrait 2
   Frida Kahlo – Frida and monkey?? (1939)

Part 2 - Nudes

1. Male Nude 1
   William Etty – The Wrestlers (1838)

2. Male Nude 2
   Lucian Freud – Sunny Morning Eight Legs (1997)

3. Female Nude 1
   Diego Velásquez – The Rokeby Venus (Venus at her Mirror) (1647)

4. Female Nude 2
   Paul Gaugin – The Spirit of the Dead Watching (1892)