Warm/cool color scales

Color scales-Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna plus White
Objectives:
Paint opaquely
Push the development of color options, examine warm vs cool, light vs dark.
Be aware of your mixture, devise a recipe-quarters, thirds, parts, etc.-you decide- just know how to get to a desired color.

Next step:
Oil sketch- Bread and Water
Use your color scales as a reference to help determine range and as a tool to adapt what's observed with the goal to create a warm/cool oil sketch-
Paint warm in the darks and cool in the lights.
Often, lower key/darker colors feel cool and can even deaden a painting. (Warming up)  the shadow area helps create a more lively painted image- also, it helps avoid creating a dark void or flat mass within the painted image.

John Singer Sargent
https://metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/16.53/

Courbet
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gust/hd_gust.htm
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/larger-than-life-31654689/

Delacroix
https://www.eugenedelacroix.org/

Prompt Bread and Water narrative painting.

Chardin

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435888

https://www.artrenewal.org/artworks/still-life-with-grapes-and-pomegranates/jean-baptiste-simeon-chardin/28918

Color Palette

Considerations:

Organize your palette the same each time, location of paint on your palette will become intuitive and allow you to respond to the painted image, encouraging a continuous flow while in the process of making a painting. 

Your palette is inspired by the Zorn palette, modified by replacing Ivory black with a mixture of Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna. This allows for additional mixtures with the goal to examine an endless options of mixtures.

Concepts:

Tint/Shade-Light/Dark

Color Complements

Color Temperature

Use complementary colors to neutralize the chroma or darken-down your color choice- 

Also, color shades can be achieved by neutralizing and adding darker values like Rembrandt brown-

The goal is to achieve the lower key without suppressing the color.

https://gamblincolors.com/oil-painting/color/artist-grade-oil-colors/

Color scale assignment:

Create 1 x1 inch color scales of the modified Zorn palette- use the palette page as reference-

16 x 20 inch canvas

Goal: First, Make the color in your palette, then paint the scale-

Due for a grade-Wednesday at the beginning of class-

Paint opaquely when creating your color scales.

A limited palette requires exaggerated moments of color to create an effective illusion.

Lessons in Classical Painting- J. Aristides

Sources:

http://michaellynnadams.com/zorn-palette/

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2011/07/zorn-palette.html

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437964?

https://www.anderszorn.org/sortBy=Relevance&ft=zorn&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=4

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anders-Zorn

Links of interest:

http://char.txa.cornell.edu/