COLOR: watercolor and ink

Georgia

Andrea

Alyssa

Luke

Jake

Yesterday the class completed work on their watercolor and ink drawings. Georgia has very skillfully created a deep sense of space using a primary triad color scheme. She has effectively employed the distal cues as well as the design principle of similarity. As the objects move back in space they diminish in size and rise on the picture plane.  In addition, she has created rhythms by strategically locating and repeating the colors throughout the composition.
Andrea has employed a color scheme of earth tones. She has effectively used overlap and direction of the objects that move the "eye" through the space. In addition, she has complemented the large yellow area with soft, violet shadows and negative areas.
Alyssa has created a very well designed composition with the absence of cast shadows and employing repetition in colors. The dark bottle in the bottom right corner directs the "eye" towards the other dark objects moving back into the composition. She has also created secondary rhythms with the blue-gray objects and the yellow objects.
Luke too has very skillfully employed the distal cues. He has created a brilliant and rich composition of pure primary and secondary colors. The layered and controlled values suggest light and form while maintaining visual interesting brush strokes.
Jake has employed open value areas of color. By superimposing the line drawing over the loose colors he has simultaneously created a space with two-dimensions as well as three.