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.