Series 3

Colour Discovery 10

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Colour Discovery Ten - Colour for Landscapes

Theory:

  • Definition of a landscape.

Colour Properties

Colour and Composition

  • Golden Mean

  • Main Point of Focus

  • Pattern

  • Temperature

  • Harmony

  • Rhythm

  • Position on canvas

  • Tonal Range

Modelling with Colour

  • Perspective

  • Shadows

  • Scale

  • Proportion

  • Tones

The palettes of these paintings

  1. Meindert Hobbema - A Woody Landscape (1665)

  2. Claude Vernet - Seaport by Moonlight (1771)

  3. Thomas Cole - The Oxbow (1836)

  4. Vincent Van Gogh - Wheatfields with Cypresses (1889)

  5. Georgia O’Keefe - Canada Hills (1937)

  6. Sir David Hockney - Winter Wood (1996)