Projects
#15/16
Celebrity
Portraits using Split Complement and Triadic
Color
Schemes
STA
113:009
Work
Days: Partial Work day Wed. April
8 and Wed, April 15- this project will be completed mostly outside of class
Project
Due: Monday, April 20
Objective:
To
continue using acrylic paint and collage (paint chips, magazine clippings) and
investigate color schemes and color value.
Vocab
covered:
complementary
colors, color value, Triadic Harmony, Complementary Harmony, color vibration,
simultaneous contrast, film color, volume color
Step
1: Work out a
15-20 shape design based on a famous portrait that will fit in an eight by ten
inch format (8” x 10”). The portrait should not be bi-laterally balanced
(symmetrical). You may draw directly onto the printout and transfer those
shapes by graphite transfer. This is easiest if your printout is enlarged and
cropped to 8 x 10’ already. Leave at least a 1” clean border around both
designs. As for the colors in both projects, you may use a combination of
paint and paint chips (with the text removed).
Step
2: The first portrait will use a Split
Complementary Scheme. This scheme is close to the complementary scheme, but
uses the neighboring sides of one of the complements. For example: Green,
Red-Orange and Red-Violet. You can use any hue, tint or shade of these colors
for each shape. Be sure to choose colors and shapes that accurately describe
the volume of the portrait. For example, a nose may not be one color, but two
shapes, one darker than the other. Two shapes within the design must vibrate
against each other.
Plan
out what color your shapes are going to be in both portraits before painting or
beginning to collage by lightly indicating what color and value you want on your
Bristol. The background color
should also fit within the scheme.
Step
3: The second
portrait will use a Triadic Harmony Scheme. This means you may use any
three colors on the color wheel that are equally spaced from each other. For
example: red, yellow and blue or yellow-green, red-orange and blue-violet. This
design must also be the same value- no color should feel lighter or darker
than any other. This will require a bit of tinting, shading and toning to
achieve this sense of unity.
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