Digital Painting
mART 325 - Spring 2006

Instructor: Katherine Bazak
bazakk@smccd.net
kbazak@yahoo.com

 

Oil Painting Exercise
2 paintings (6" x 6" @ 200 ppi)

 

1 Use one of your sketch book objects or bring a photo of a colorful object
2 Make 2 color sets (triadic or quadratic). One should be cool color dominant
3 Give each one a ground color (paper color). One should have a cool color ground. One should have a warm color ground. Value of color should be 35% and Saturation should be 45%.
4 Work with the warm color set on cool ground. Cool set on warm ground.
5 Use oils, artists oils, palette knife. You can try impasto, but it is somewhat diffcult to control.
6 Start with the dark values and work up to the light values. Layer warm over cool. Low - high opacity.
7 We are aiming for a painting where brushwork is important. Slide saturation down to check your values. you can use a mixture of clone and color set.