Painting with Color: Flower of Sunshine

I then began to add in shadows and more details into the pedals.

Painting with Color: Flower of Sunshine

Take 2: I started over on the pedals today. It was somewhat hard to do this, because I felt as if I was going backwards in progress rather than forward, I just had to trust it was like cleaning a room or something--it would get worse before it would get better. Anyway, I tried apply three different shades of yellow to the three rings of flower pedals, to give me somewhere to begin.

Painting with Color: Flower of Sunshine

This is a photo of my piece after our first critique. Areas of concern were: the contour, outlining look of the pedals; the flatness of both the petals and the background. 

Painting with Color: Flower of Sunflower

Photo is taken after work day 2. I had a rough time beginning this piece. When looking at my object I got overwhelmed with the amount of details that were in this one flower. There were so many individual pedals, each creating all kinds of shadows and now with color, those shadows were not just blacker areas but rather a color in them self. After some guidance, I begin just as I did in my value practice. I started sectioning pedals off and applying a solid color to their nearest tonal value. I did not have my camera at had at this stage, so I wasn't able to document the piece at this step of my process. Here I have just started to deal with the color and change of values in the center and with some of the pedals.

Painting with COLOR: Yellow Flower

My work space and a new white canvas! Daunting?...yes...exciting?...absolutely! We began our new practice today. COLOR!

A fun play on words! 

Beige - Kinetic Typography to Nordine

"Color Matters"

On one of this website's links, it brings up the idea that a color can change its appearance depending on the other color(s) it is near. For instance, red may look bright and vibrant beside black or blue while appearing to be more dull next to white or orange. This brought to mind the idea of how each person seems to have a color or a couple of colors that they feel complements them best, whether based on skin tone, hair color, eye color etc. In addition this idea of color may also explain why some people are uncertain of their eye color. One day their eyes may appear green, another blue and yet another grey, all due to the color of clothing they are wearing. I just found this idea to be intriguing and something that I think would be kind of fun to experiment with.

Color Matters