Color monochromatic and layered color schemes
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Color: Painting in Contrasting Layers
Monochromatic Color Schemes
Painting in Layers
• Bright underneath• Dull on top
• Red over a yellow/green under painting• Most of it is covered up, but some still ‘peeks through’
• Pink/orange underneath• Let it Dry• Dark blue on top• “clouds” are “holes in the sky”• (Georgia O’Keefe watercolor)
• You can let the bottom layer show through
• In this case, the leaves (brown) is the bottom layer
• Orange underneath• Blue on top• You can see one under
the other
• painting on a black background
• painting on an orange background
Monochromatic Color schemes
• Monochromatic color schemes create a strong mood
Kandinksy
color doesn’t exist independently of the lightThis creates MOOD
Claude Monet painted images of ‘white marble’ on a church which don’t look like ‘white’
Monochromatic color = Light/dark, Bright/dull, Warm/cool varieties of the same hue
Picasso’s ‘Blue Period’
Hirsch
Elmer Bischoff
Bonnard
Rothko