CKNotes 4: Greens for Spring (& St. Patrick's Day) - student art, adult art class, 3/10/14.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Greens for Spring (& St. Patrick's Day) - student art, adult art class, 3/10/14.

Greens for Spring (& St. Patrick's Day) - student art, adult art class, 3/10/14. Charts of yellow & blue crayons to make greens, and other green mixes. Landscapes & shamrocks for final drawings, inspired by photo references.

Exercises

Two sheets, four windows/boxes each - A,B,C,D.

Set 1

A) patches of the yellow and blues you have with name labels for each color.

B) patches of crayon greens with name labels, from light to dark.

C) Yellows first.

Light across the horizontal top half.

'Darker' yellow across bottom half. Label names in margin.

Blues (four - green blue, cerulean, blue, indigo in these crayon boxes). Color these blues across the yellows in perpendicular sections, lightest on the left to darkest on the right.

D) Blues first - just as above, BUT application order is reversed.

Set 2

A) Crayon greens in 3 horizontal bands, lightest across the top, darkest across the bottom.

Oranges & purples vertical bands across the greens; lightest on left, darkest on right. Label colors in margins AS you lay down each color.

B) Crayon greens in 3 horizontal bands, lightest across the top, darkest across the bottom.

Apricot, brown, grey, black (neutral crayon colors) in perpendicular bands across the greens. Label colors in margins as you go.

C) Quickie landscape using the 3 crayon greens. Even green for sky.

D) Lightest green covers the whole box first.

Color in background w a darker color to negatively shape a shamrock.

As you start with this you think of more possibilities for variations.

Value experiments...

Gradations..