---PART I: Analyzing Color in a Painting
- ✔ select a painting and study the artist's usage of color
- ✔ Before you get started, ask yourself:
- Where are the lightest values in the painting? Where are the darkest?
- lightest: concrete, walkway, yellow sky
- darkest: top sky, bottom right ground
- Where are the dull, neutral colors? Where are the intense, saturated colors?
- dull/neutral: buildings
- intense/saturated: orange walkway, yellow sky
- Did the artist use complementary colors? Where?
- Red ground vs green sky
- Orange walkway vs blue water
- Where are the warm colors/cool colors?
- cool: sky, far building
- warm: ground, front building
- Which colors are expanding forward? Which colors are shifting back?
- forward: front building, walkway
- backward: far building, train
- Which colors are repeated to create visual rhythm?
- Did the artist use a natural light source? Where is the light coming from? Where are the highlights/shadows?
- "Paint" the Painting
- ✔ use Photoshop to abstract the painting down to its main areas of color
- ✔ To start out, create a new layer over the original painting and fill with an overall color to act as a base color.
- ✔ On another layer, add the lightest areas of color. Work with basic, abstract shapes. Add the large shapes and even the smallest of shapes. At this point, you'll start to get a sense of the composition from just the light values
- ✔ Next, add the darkest shapes of color
- ✔ Finally, incorporate the middle value colors.
- ✔ Continue until you have defined all the major areas of color.
- ✔ Save a PSD file, Then go to File > Save for Web & Devices to save as a JPEG with a Quality level of about 80.
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