Paint a Song!

The next project is to pick a song and paint that song. Ok, this sound a bit weird you say? 

Just like color, music has tones, rhythm, pattern and evokes feelings. Play your song and close your eyes. Do you see colors, or a visual? How do you feel when you listen to the song?

I want to to focus on lines, shapes and patterns. I do not want you to create an object or image in your design, but more of a pattern, rhythm or feeling using color, lines and shapes. 

You are to pick a triadic color scheme for your painting (Be sure to look back on your notes from class). Keep in mind the color when thinking about your song. Colors evoke different feeling. What feeling are you trying to convey? 

This painting needs to be on an 18" x 24" page with a 2" border all the way around. This will give a nice frame around your painting. 

Be sure to think about emphasis, a focus in your piece. Also how are you going to use your color and design to create a focus in your piece?

Be sure to have a copy of your song to share with the class. 

If you have any questions post them and I will respond as soon as I can!

Have fun! 

Color

also called Hue

the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue. As artist we use pigments in the form of powder or liquid paints to create color.

Categories of Color

Color Wheels a tool used to organize color. It is made up of:

Primary Colors- Red, Yellow and Blue. These colors cannot be mixed; they must be bought in some form.

Secondary Color-Orange, Violet and Green. These colors are created by mixing two primaries.

Intermediate Colors/tertiary- Red Orange, Yellow Green, Blue Violet, etc.; mixing a primary with a secondary creates these colors. 

Complementary Colors- Are colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel.  When placed next to each other they look bright and when mixed together they neutralize each other. 

                          

Color Harmonies

Color Harmonies is when an artist uses certain combinations of colors that create different looks or feelings.

Analogous Colors are colors that are next to each other on the color wheel for example red, red orange, and orange are analogous colors.

Triadic Harmony is where three equally spaced colors on the color wheel are used for example, yellow, Red, Blue is a triadic harmony color scheme.

Warm colors are on one side of the color wheel and they give the feeling of warmth for example red, orange and yellow are the color of fire and feel warm.

Cool colors are on the other side of the color wheel and they give the feeling of coolness for example blue, violet, are the color of water, and green are the color of cool grass.

Monochromatic Painting/ Colour Value Scales

Value Scale is a scale that shows the gradual change in value from its lightest value, white to its darkest value black. 

Monochromatic is where one color is used but in different values and intensity, from the darkest of darks to the lightest of light values.

Below are the hues (colors) and the tones (dark and light) scales of each.

Below are some samples of monochromatic paintings 

Using yellow

Using blue

VALUE


Value is the lightness or darkness of a color. Value is also called Tone.

Categories of Values:

Tint is adding white to color paint to create lighter values such as light blue or pink.

Shade is adding black to paint to create dark values such as dark blue or dark red.

High Key is where the picture is all light values.

Low-Key is where the picture is all dark values.

Value Contrast is where light values are placed next to dark values to create contrast or strong differences.

Value Scale is a scale that shows the gradual change in value from its lightest value, white to its darkest value black.

Practice Tone by Creating a Gray Scale or Value Scale

The two extreme tones or values are black (very dark) and white (very light). Recognizing the tone or value of a color, rather than the hue, is important to an artist/designer because successful works have tonal contrast in them, or a range of values.

A painting with only mid-tones risks being flat and dull. Value or tonal contrast creates visual interest or excitement in a painting. A high-key painting is one in which the contrasts in value or tone are extreme, from black right through the range of mid-tones down to white. A low-key painting is one in which the tonal range is narrower.

Value Project:

Create a 10-tone Value Scale using magazines to find our tones. You can use pieces with text or texture in an image to show interest. You have the freedom of what shapes and sizes you use as long as all ten tones fit inside an 18" x 6.5" matte board. You can also choose to frame each one as in this example, or use one solid frame. You could also choose to leave them and have the black matte board frame them alone.

This is an example of the project