SIMPLIFYING COLOUR SHAPES IN MY LATEST PAINTING

This is my latest painting which groups complex areas by colour shapes, and was constructed to have a strong diagonal composition my emphasising the elements close to the invisible structure lines.

SIMPLIFYING COLOUR SHAPES

ThiThis term is about simplifying colour shapes, in other words, deciding what to leave out and what to leave in, so that your composition is more easily read visually.The examples below, are paintings I did of Bassingbourn.

The first stage of the creative process is to see the potential of an otherwise uninspiring scene like the ones below, by finding a scene with strong abstract shapes in it, and add to the colours to make it more interesting

The pictures above and left were the original photographs, and I saturated the colours on my computer to see what they would look like with  the shapes  distinguished from each other, which emphasised the abstract shapes I had seen the potential in

 

 The exercises we did today, were to start by deciding on a colour scheme, see below, we chose to do thumbnails of the colour shapes in neutral dark and light, and intense to pale, we chose our favorite colour scheme before moving on to painting up the finished piece, the object of this exercise was to be disciplined enough, to stick with the colours we had chosen.
Beginners started by mixing their colours in squares before moving on to thumbnails, the object of this exercise, was to remind ourselves, that neutrals are a mix of complimentary colours ( opposites on the colour wheel ) and intense colours are less mixed with other colours, pale colours can be achieved by watering down what you had on your brush to create the darks and intense.
Beginners also learned not to clean out their pallets, so that they could re use the colours they had already created, and to avoid washing their brush out, unless they wanted a very different colour, to enable them to maintain slight differences in colour and tone from the previous mix still on the brush.



These are a few more ideas I had for paintings with strong colour shapes in

This painting below of violet flowers was requested from my picture presentation from this morning, which is an oil painting by another artist

COME TO THE CAMBRIDGE DRAWING SOCIETY'S

COME TO THE CAMBRIDGE DRAWING SOCIETY'S SPRING EXHIBITION AT THE GUILDHALL CAMBRIDGE.
I'LL BE THERE AT THE PRIVATE VIEW ON FRIDAY 12TH APRIL, AND THE EXHIBITION WILL BE ON TILL SAT 20TH APRIL.
I WILL BE EXHIBITING THE PAINTING BELOW OF WINTER AT THE CAMBRIDGE BOTANICAL GARDENS, AMONGST OTHERS.
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

GILLY XX