Week 12 - Natural Landscapes in Colour

In this week we studied colour in natural landscape, we went to Todmorden to study some for the colourful landscape seen around the area. This first sketch was a very long fifty minute sketch of the canals in Todmorden. As you can see this sketch has layers of colour starting with lighter colours and moving into darker ones. The tonal values of the water are good as you can see different tones of brown, grey and black and go from darker colour values to lighter one to create the sense of distance. The darker black, grey, green values make the compressed sections of the sketch as the lighter colours open up the wider expanding sections. The darker tones to the water create a colder feel whilst the brighter greens and yellows make warmer feels for the path and grass.

Directional marks are used horizontally with the curve of the canal to create the sense of water flow and reflection. Directional marks are also used in the grass to show the longer areas of grass and foliage. Bending has been used to create an even transition between colours. some detail has been picked out using darker colours to pick out the detail in the bricks in the canal wall and the stones on the floor. Scrubbing can be seen in the path to create a gravel texture and the white and silvery colours for water. The perspective of the sketch is good and the sense of distance is created by foreshortening. I think more tones could be added to get the more sutler colour in the water and path.

Week 11 - Colour in Landscape

This week's focus was the colour in landscape, we went to Bradford's Centenary Square to focus on the complex colouring of the landscape. This first sketch is a short twenty minute sketch I did to get warmed up, it isn't great but but it does offer a good starting point at looking at the colours I have used. You can see how I have used layers of colours to create tonal value in the trees, grass and stone. I also used directional marks to form the trees and the branches and also the detail of the grass. By blending colours of the same shade like greens, browns, oranges and greys I can create natural colours that differ in lightness and darkness to pick up on the sutler colours in this landscape.

As you can the the perspective of this sketch is all wrong because it seems to be looking down on the landscape and should be lower down. The proportion is also way off and the size of the grass patches and trees needs work. The bricks in the walls surrounding the grass are coloured we because the show off atransitionof colour from lighter and darker colour creating expanding brick work.  This also creates a colder tone as they are stone using the greys and black for lifeless objects and warmer, brighter tones for the trees and grass for living things and sunlight.

 

The next drawing was a lot longer and took me almost fifty minutes to sketch, this was a much larger prospective of the Centenary square. This sketch offers a more acute perspective and is a lot better proportioned. The amount of colours used in this sketch is good and the amount of blending seen in the grass, floor and trees is very good. Darker tones like the blues, grey and blacks have been used to create colder colours for the non-organic objects like man made objects like the stone and concrete. Warmer colours like the browns, greens, oranges and reds have been used to create the more organic things like trees, grass, bushes and dirt. There is fore shortening in this picture as the things near the back appear to get smaller creating a sense of distance in the sketch.

The separation of colour has helped to create an interesting sketch with a lot of different colours with greeny, yellowy hues in the grass and browny, orangey hues in the trees, I feel this picture could be improved by removing the black outlines seen a round some objects in this landscape this is because in real life object don't have outlines and also this would help everything blend into the environment to create a more harmonious landscape. The used of more sutler colours and also  mixing them more would help to create more realistic colours but I feel this style helps to pick out the dominates colours and also adds tonal value. The saturated colours in this sketch help to define areas that are made of more harded materials like stone which has suttler colour tones. 



Week 10 - Classical Interior Achitecture

This week was a focus on classical interior architecture, we went to the Alhambra theatre in Bradford to draw the highly detailed interior of the theatre. The first sketch I did was a forty five minute sketch of the booths over looking the stage. This sketch shows the composition very well as the focal point of this sketch is the booths over looking the stage and focusing on the corner of the room allows you to see a number of perspectives throughout the sketch. The dark dominate lines in the sketch lead the eye around aspects of this sketch that are most pleasing and defines the main shapes seen from this perspective. The shading give areas of the sketch a sense of a different texture and it breaks up the lines into different objects seen in the sketch.

The detail included helps to pick out the classical features in the interior of the theatre, like the columns, stage, balcony and booths. This sketch uses negative space effectively because the whitest areas of the sketch imply that there is space there and the shaded bits show the most textured and darker objects. The centre of interest is the booths so this has the most detail because the viewer will be focusing mainly on this area of the sketch. Not too much detail is included because that would distract the eye from the overall theme of the picture and enough is there to give an indication of what the complexity of the sketch is.