Week Five

Monday, September 27, 2016

A student shared an animation an artist made of a Picasso drawing in 3D. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc1Nfx4c5LQ.

We discussed chapter 3 and the properties of art. There are 8, according to our textbook: Line, mass/form, color, texture, shape, space, light/value, and time and motion. Form is implied in paintings and drawings, but real in sculptures. Space is the area around and inside an artwork. Positive space= the area the subject occupies. Negative space= the empty space around the subject. Linear Perspective is used in 2D art to make it appear 3D and give a sense of depth. Light/value is the lightness or darkness of the artwork.

Tuesday, September 28, 2016

We continued discussing the properties of art in chapter 3. Color has many particular aspects to it, including hue, intensity, primary colors, secondary colors, and additive colors. Hue is the spectral color and wavelength. Intensity is commonly thought of as saturation, the purity of the color. (Is it only that color or is it mixed together with another color?) The color wheel is made up of primary and secondary colors, for the most part. Primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. Mix those together and you can make any other color. Secondary colors are orange, green, and purple. These are what you get when you mix two primary colors. (Red+yellow=Orange. Red+blue=purple.)

This website is a handy tool for artisits. http://trycolors.com/palette/. If you know a HEX-code of needed color, you can input it or pick the color on the color wheel and get appropriate formula. Also you can click on any colored bar to see few tints of needed hue.