Last month I took one of the best online class ever from Melinda Cootsana. She is an excellent teacher who gives detailed feedback. The class I took was Own Your Colors Part 2. Nope, I didn't take Part 1 which she said wasn't required.
I'll share a few of my assignments. So many of these ideas were brand new to me.
I wasn't that familiar with the phenomenon of color relativity. It extraordinary how the same color can look completely different given the colors that surround it. Here is my attempt at giving this a try.
The top two photos are the same turquoise green. The bottom two are the same yellow green.
Cool light with warm shadows and its counterpart, warm light with cool shadows was a brand new exercise for me.
I also learned about bringing reflective color into the shadow.
Painting a self portrait with a Zorn color palette was a quite challenging! The Zorn color palette ( Cadmium Red Light, Payne's Grey and Yellow Ochre) are colors I usually wouldn't gravitate toward. That is precisely why this assignment was so good for me to try. This is my very first self portrait!
Yep, this looks like a first attempt at a self portrait.
Using mostly neutrals with thimbleful of a primary color opened my eyes to how the brighter colors pop when contrasted against muted colors. I knew this idea theoretically, but this exercise brought it home for me.
Painting of Birth of Venus by Caz Love. A site specific art installation at Elephant Butte Lake.
I highly recommend this class. I'm in love with Melinda's figurative art so I'll be taking her Abstracting the Figure online class coming right up in September!