Series 3

Colour Discovery 11

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Colour Discovery Eleven - Colour for Buildings

Theory:

  • Definition of Buildings

Colour Properties

Colour and Composition

  • Colour schemes3

  • Contrasts3

  • Position on canvas

  • Tonal Range

  • Temperature

Modelling with Colour

  • Highlights

  • Perspective

  • Proportion

  • Reflections

  • Scale

  • Shadows

  • Highlights

The palettes of these paintings:

  1. Gerrit Berckheyde - The Market Place and the Grote Kerk at Haarlem (1674)

  2. Canaletto - A Regatta on the Grand Canal (1740)

  3. John Atkinson Grimshaw - Blackman Street, London (1885)

  4. Claude Monet - Le portail et la tour Saint-Romain, plein soleil ; or harmonie bleue et or (1892/3)

  5. Edward Hopper - House by the Railroad (1925)

  6. L. S. Lowry - Industrial Landscape (1955)

  7. John Nash - Mill Building, Boxted (1962)

  8. Sir David Hockney - The Road to York through Sledmere (1997)