Post 21 - Final Week before Seminar
Trying to collect thoughts into more coherent Artists Statement
Using ‘The Waves’ introduction by Jeanette Winterson
“Sun and Moon are usually paired together, but sun and shadow are the light-changes that affect our lives”What do we need to know? ’About sun. About shadow”
Also starting new work based on Colour
Everything I know about Yellow
Yellow wip
1650 x 1800 mm Oil on Canvas
Sally Barron
Everything I know about Red wip
1650 x 1800 mm
Sally Barron 2023
Everything I know about Blue wip
2023
Sally Barron
Walks from memory South Downs wip
Re worked
1650 x 1800 mm
Goal for next week - collage that starts from found materials, create this using one of my en plein air drawings, then paint it.
Yellow - find a wide range of simple forms which may be said to be this colour. Look for variations within the hue, eg warm yellows, cool yellows, and variations within the tonal value, eg dark and light. Try also to identify the colour with the highest chromatic intensity, eg the purest yellow, and compare this with the more neutral counterparts.
I will aim to glaze once they are finish with a single translucent glaze over the layers, red, blue and yellow.
Noting the colour is enhanced by complimentary pairs. Pale colours (formed with the addition to white) seen next to its neighbouring hue on the colour wheel, eg pink (tint of red) adjacent to orange. Also looking at paintings by Seurat for example there is marked contrast of tone around bodies, the light side has dark adjacent and visa vera. This imitates the human eye which perceives the same background tone as darker around a light object and lighter around a dark object.
I have been reading about the dates when different colours were invented and trying to use the ones that are of interest to me that artists I admire used.
for example Emerald green and Viridian were introduced in the 19th Century.
Vista
Isle of Wight 2023
Oil on Canvas
Copy after Bruegel the Elder
Starting to copy a painting from Bruegel every time I come into the studio as a ‘warm up’. This proves to be surprisingly helpful.
