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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
These are nine of the ten (10!) paintings I had to do for my last art project, in which we learned more than we ever wanted to know about color theory. Actually that’s not entirely true–I didn’t learn anything about color theory that I didn’t already know, just some things about mixing that I hadn’t figured out yet. Anyway, we had to paint the same image ten times in then different (assigned) colors schemes. The schemes are (from left to right, starting at the top): Monochromatic, Contrasting colors (not complements), split complement, cool colors with warm accents, color triad, monochromatic b/w with one hue,color tetrad, analogous colors, color complements.
This is a close up of one of the paintings (monochromatic black and white with one other color–I chose red-violet). Sorry about the weird lines on it; they’re actually a shadow from the venetian blinds in my room. I started out trying to do modeling on the arm and hand, as well as giving the guitar strings, but quickly gave that up as too time-consuming. I might go back later and give the guitars strings with a permanent marker or something, but I like the hands as they are now. More of the pop-art look I like so much.
This project was, in my mind, sort of a warm-up for the portrait of James I’m giving him for Christmas, of him playing his guitar. In fact I drew the sketch for these from one of the reference photos I took of him. (His guitar is white and maroon, though.) So now at least I can paint the guitar in my sleep, even if the rest of him will be a little harder.
Update: Surprise, surprise: after finishing this project, I never wanted to look at these paintings ever again. So now they are hanging on James’ wall in the arrangement you see in the photo. So yes, I still have to see them sometimes, but it looks pretty cool.
