Category Archives: Assignments

Color Constancy

Posted on October 27, 2016 by GaddyArt

Paint a series of four (4) landscape studies of the view from your dorm room or apartment window. Each study should be 5” x 7”. By paying particular attention to the landscape under different lighting situations, different times of day, … Continue reading →

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Color Schemes: Ten Letter Word

Posted on September 22, 2016 by GaddyArt

You will choose a 10 letter word expressing aspects and contexts of that word in FIVE different color schemes. Begin by selecting a word from the dictionary – your word must contain a minimum of 10 letters. After you select … Continue reading →

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Color Explorations

Posted on September 8, 2016 by GaddyArt

Make a series of 8 designs exploring the characteristics of color: Hue, Value, Saturation and Temperature. Your designs can be simplified representational images or they may be non-objective or abstract but they must be thematically or stylistically linked in some … Continue reading →

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Hue: Temperature

Posted on September 6, 2016 by GaddyArt

Temperature refers to the relative warmth or coolness of a hue. Temperature is often overlooked but can be used as a powerful tool in the creation of depth and emotion in a piece. Temperature has also been connected to saturation … Continue reading →

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Hue: Saturation

Posted on September 1, 2016 by GaddyArt

All of our color aspects are interrelated. Saturation is no different and we have, in fact, already dealt with saturation in our two previous assignments. Saturation is a hue’s intensity. A pure color is highly saturated, think of that pure, … Continue reading →

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Hue

Posted on August 27, 2015 by GaddyArt

Create a color wheel with the primary, secondary and tertiary color represented. This may seem like an easy assignment but it is far more complex than it first appears. Primary Colors: Not all primary paints are created equal. You may … Continue reading →

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