Monday, May 2, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Matisse Horse Painting Critical Analysis
1) The dominant complementary colour scheme started off being the purple and yellow on the horse. But the orange and the blue in the background was more dominant so the orange and blue ended up being the dominant complementary colour scheme. I chose these colours because I really like them and I thought orange and blue in the back would look good with purple and yellow in the front. It turned out to be very cool and I like it a lot.
2) The only pattern that I used was the purple and yellow in the horse. The main body and the front and back leg were purple. The mane, tail and the two middle legs were yellow. I did this to add some variety rather than emphasis or a focal point.
3) The painting started off as a real portrait of a horse. I then transferred it to the nutex sheet. Once it was on the nutex, I distorted it into Matisse's type of style. Once that was done, I created a fitting background on a seperate nutex sheet and started painting. A difficulty that came by me was making the colour brown for the mountain the horse is standing on. It took a while for me to get the right colour. Once I got it, I transferred the Matisse horse to pieces of nutex, that I painted different colours, and cut the horse pieces out. Then I glued the pieces on and got a product. I thought it looked too plain so I added blue stars to improve it. I made the stars blue because it would be complementary with the orange.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Picasso Horse Painting Critical Analysis
1) I chose the blue monochromatic colour scheme. This means that I only used shades of the colour blue. Not mixtures of blue and other colours, but shades of blue. To make shades, I mixed the blue with the colour black and/or white. I chose an accent colour which is the opposite colour of the monochromatic colour. In this case, the accent was orange because that is the opposite of blue on the colour wheel. I used this because if the whole painting was blue, every component on the painting would blend in and nothing would be visible. So I used orange behind the horse so the horse would stand out.
2) The first thing I did was trace the real horse portrait and transferred it on to another piece of nutex paper. Then what I did was edited the horse by changing the shape, making more viewpoints and making designs within the horse. Everything so far went pretty smoothly but I reached a difficulty; the background. Making the background at first was exceptionally difficult. I tried putting a few ideas on tracing paper so I could decide between them but nothing I could do worked. So when I started my final painting I just came up with a background I liked and put it right on the nutex paper. The painting at times was difficult because of the little designs in the horse but everything pulled through and I ended up with a painting I am happy with.
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