CREATIVITY LESSON 2: Light Affects Colors
You will paint with primary colors as you explore light and dark color variations in this creativity lesson.
Tinting is to change the value of a color by making it lighter. Shading is to change the value of a color by making it darker.
The rules of art, and the ideas presented in this book, are meant to help you to see the world around you with more accuracy. Don’t follow rules to the exclusion of observing from real life. Always look at the objects and determine whether what you see fits the rule you have in mind, or whether some other influence of light is at work. Keep your ideas flexible as you study light on form. The general rules for setting up a good situation for viewing light on form are as follows: 1. Use one direct source of light. 2. That main source of light should be the strongest light at play on the object. 3. Paint the cast shadow to show that object rests on a ground, tabletop, etc. 4. Paint light, by using tints, and darks, by using shades, to show three-dimensionality.
Using light and shade shows the object’s three-dimensional form. Make a painting of a single-colored (monochromatic) three-dimensional object, such as a cup. Shine a light on one side. Notice how light affects the color. You may mix the color with white to paint the light side. You may mix some colors with black to paint the side that turns away from the light. Paint the table top and the shadow on the tabletop to hold the object to the table, so that it does not look as though it’s floating in space. You will use tints and shades of the color.
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