Understanding major influences that express figure’s gesture
Select significant
Line, Shape +
Shadows
COLOR TEMPERATURE : spatial relationship in illusionary space
Media Selection ::
Understanding media
specificities + support qualities allows every artist to exploit them
Mass + Line
H20color wash gesture with
cool color (blue)
Add contour edge with water soluble crayon
Add warm H20 - wash while paper remains wet
Psychology of Perception ::
Viewer’s Mind “completes” the image
Very little indication of where arms + legs are, yet
we understand where they are situated
Narrow Focus
Flat Mass Shape +
Overlapping Contours
Solid masses, understood as warm - however, here, completed in cool temperature of blue
with at minimum 3 different values.
Make note to where the warms and cools
are placed on the volumes of the figure,
thus pulling forms back and forth on the
spatial plane.
Warm color placement of watercolor
contrast with cools of negative
shapes of paper.
