Series 3

Colour Discovery 12

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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)