martedì 13 marzo 2012

colour theory - colour journals /sketchbooks

© JANE MINTER 
" orange + blue" 

complementary colours
watercolour - watercolour tubes - still life 

"cad orange + cerl blue"
complementary colours 
colour swatches "wet in wet"
A4 moleskine sketchbook 


"cad orange  + FUM "
complementary colours
colour swatches "wet in wet"
A4 moleskine 


....in Maggie Latham's  Exploring colour in watercolour part 4 .... Maggie talks about the importance of keeping a colour journal sketchbook ..I'm posting a couple examples of complementary colour swatches  "orange + blue"  which I've made in the past from pages of one of my moleskine sketchbooks...  I enjoy working intuitively with colour  hopefully knowledge of colour theory will enrich this ....working on 100 wash challenge definately has.

7 commenti:

Judy ha detto...

Better knowledge certainly is helpful to me and the exercises are more enjoyable than I would have thought beforehand. Thanks for sharing these, I recognize some of them!

ann @ studiohyde ha detto...

Really like the painting of the tubes of paint, you manage to get it completely without overworking. Amazing!

renate ha detto...

Hai Jane:) Incredible beautiful! The shadow under the tube and the way you painted the tubes and the colors around them. Just perfect!

JANE MINTER ha detto...
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JANE MINTER ha detto...

judy ann renate i used the watercolour tubes as an example ...i've posted it before just added a few colour swatches so i could link back to maggie's exploring colour part 4 and colour journals ..which is a wonderful post

judy glad you're making most of the exercises ! ..it's good experimenting with different colours and combinations .

Anonimo ha detto...

Jane, The one great thing about keeping a colour journal is that everything goes into it...random thoughts, colour swatches, paint studies etc. If I do some of these on small bits of watercolour paper, I just double side tape them into my book. I love your paint tubes!

JANE MINTER ha detto...

hi maggie ...journals are wonderful for personal reference would be nice to keep loose work together in a loose leaf portfolio format ... with so many photos sketches studies swatches ..could also be collected in digital journals file / computer as a record and reference ...not quite the same as journal but useful .... i'm looking foward to meeting up with suzanne this w-e ...thanks again maggie