We made it to the 4th week and this week is full-color time! Yes, you are now allowed to go back to using as many colors in your palette as you want. But I do want to warn you that you should still look to create a color scheme for your painting.

When I say full color it doesn't mean that you have to go all-out rainbow with your color selection. It only means that you are not restricted to only use a certain amount. These last couple of weeks you have worked with a limited palette and you have learned that you can create just as good a value pattern with a limited palette as you can with a full-color palette. You also learned how important a color scheme can be to show dimension in a piece of work by using different colors in the background compared to the foreground. Try to keep on thinking about how the values are very important to follow but can sometimes be achieved with a color temperature. Bright colors come forward as grey colors fall back.

When using a full-color scheme, work out the values first, then look at how a color scheme can help out the values. A color scheme between two compliments is always a good way to start thinking about colors that you are going to use.  For example, if you use purple then an earth tone yellow can really be a great color to use with the purple. You can still use a bunch of other colors but the main colors that make up most of the painting should reflect a certain color scheme.

This week again I will only be giving you a black and white photo to work with because I still want you to think about colors and values and figure them out instead of just copying what you would see in a color photograph. Get creative and figure out your own colors for the painting!

 

See everyone on Thursday... love how good everyone is doing with these assignments the last couple of weeks.

David