Studio Art: Color of the Skull

This week in class we'll continue to work with western, conventional color theory as a means to make our art stronger. Please be aware that there are many theories out there that have led up to our current model, including thinkers such as Goethe:

"Light spectrum, from Theory of Colours – Goethe observed that colour arises at the edges, and the spectrum occurs where these coloured edges overlap." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours)


And please remember that there is a whole bunch of peoples' worth of color and what color means in the world to those folks:

Your project for the week is to finish your mandala color wheel using the water color paint. You may embellish them however you wish.

Then you'll draw the buffalo skull focusing on the highlights and lowlights, but you'll use color to define them. You can use the ideas of warm or cool colors, light or dark colors, or some other way to define how you are coloring your image. But you must remain consistent to what you are doing!

For example, you cannot say I'm using a system of lights and darks to define my skull and then use the lightest colors to define the shadows--or can you?!

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