Evening Drawing
Week 6: Colours
Helena Lukášová, Hana Pokojná
Colour
• https://onextrapixel.com/what-is-color-theory/
Colour Theory
• Colours need to complement each other to be harmonious
https://www.seekpng.com/ipng/u2q8r5y3t4u2u2u2_color-theory-color-wheel/
http://www.scrapnframes.com/SITE_EN/SCRAPBOOKING/HTML_PAGES/ColoursHarmonyEn.html
Colours and feelings
• Blue Nude by Pablo Picasso, 1902
• Sadness
• Vincent van Gogh
• Rumoured that he ate yellow paint to
make himself ‘happy’
• Discovered pigment cadmium yellow
and chrome yellow
Vincent van Gogh Sunflowers 1888 National Gallery, London
• Colours are used to create
feelings in real life, too. For
example:
• shade of green in hospitals is
meant to be calming,
• Yellow/ orange/ red signs on the
road
• White torture: room to get rid of
the visual sense
Values and tones
https://kapundahigh.weebly.com/shape-and-tone.html
Squint your eyes!
https://www.deviantart.com/sarahcaj/art/Patrick-Jane-Stencil-2-344370332
• Try to do a 3 tonal drawing
• Squint your eyes and look at the
darkest colours
• Lightest colours
• And only THEN the in-between
colours
• Divide the tonal value on the overall picture, not just , for
example: black hair, white face and grey clothes. Divide it
into darkest shadows, brightest highlights and other
medium tones
Combine
• Divide your drawing into tonal ranges
• Assign a colour to eah tonal range, for
example, blue for the darkest tones,
orange for medium ones and yellow for
the light ones
• Draw and have fun ☺
• Great resource: Intuitive Approach to
Using Colour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPP
djHREv7w