Final Piece
Idea & Planning
I started with the heels which are in red colour (warm colour). Then I added the tubes of paint in warm colours (red and yellow). To balance the still life out, I decided to use a blue tube of paint to balance out the warmness of the still life. I tried to use the one-third rule here with the tubes in one third, the heels in the middle, and lastly the negative spaces in one third.
Techniques used:
- Triad harmony: I used triad colours (yellow, red and blue)
- Colour balance and proportion: The recommended proportion is yellow:red:blue = 3:6:8.
- Analogus: I used 4 shades of brown to create the gradient on the bone. As there are some white parts too, I also used white and light grey yo create the tone. I also used 2 shades of brown for the padding of the heels.
- Optical mixing: I attempted but it was not very well-done. I tried to use pointillism to create the trees outside the window.
- Creating shadows on the table
Process
Firstly, I sketched out the layouts of my still life on the white paper.
I started with the red heels. I observed that there are shadows on the heels. Initially I wanted to create shadows by poking holes on the areas with shadows so that when I paste the red paper onto a navy blue paper, there will be spots of navy blue on red. I had this idea as I was inspired by the pointillism method to obtain optical mixing effect.
However, the method did not work as I wanted to so I tried with lines and experienced with different thickness of lines. I decided to use thin lines in my final piece and depicts the gradient of the shadows by varying the distance between the lines.
Date: 19 September 2016
