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ART
LESSONS (To help you
decide to
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Interactive Art School's full
6 Lesson,
10 Textbook.
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Interactive
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the 9 FREE
Art Lessons
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A FREE Art Lesson from Interactive
Art School. This and the other Free Art Lessons are for your enjoyment
and a hint of what you will receive in the for-profit 10 Lesson/10
Textbook/10 Personal Critique Full Art Course
LOCAL COLOR:
An object has several attributes that an artist must
understand to properly render it realistically in a drawing or painting.
Form
Local color
The lights that illuminate the
object
and many others we'll get to in
other lessons
Let's take an apple apart into these
elements, focusing here on the effect of "LOCAL COLOR".
An apple in white
The apple skin
The two combined
(The LOCAL COLOR)
The ANATOMY of the Underlying FORM of the
Apple is shown in the diagram below:
(The images above are computer generated to demonstrate the principles
involved.)
Once we establish the underlying form, we must
then apply the LOCAL COLOR, in this case the apples skin. This idea is a
MENTAL EXERCISE, a demonstration of the principles. The old masters on the
other hand actually working this way. They did an "UNDERPAINTING" in black ,
white and grays or in dark brown (UMBER) and black and white tinted into the
Umber paint. The resulting "Underpainting" was a monochrome image (one color
with tints of the color) much like a black and white photograph. They then
varnished the underpainting so they could proceed with the "OVERPAINTING"
where they applied color tints. If you did this apple in underpainting/
overpainting technique, after you completed the black, white and gray apple
to the left above, you would paint the color apple skin on top of the black,
white and gray apple, adding the bluish tints from the left hand window
light.
With the local color added - we have a
realistic apple:
The idea here is to have you
understand the different aspects separately in your learning process.
These principles underlie all objects.
This page a
sample of the Interactive Art Schools ON-THE-WEB teaching. One of the
school's tools is it's unique use of WEB & computer variations which can make principles
clearer than a flat printed textbook or sketches in chalk on a blackboard. So we supplement the course text
books with on-the-web lessons and lesson supplements like this (All
registered students get 10 text books in their Sign Up Kit).
End of FREE Lesson #8 "LOCAL
COLOR
and it's Relationship to FORM"
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