Graphic LA - pgs 39-57

PERSPECTIVE

The overall perspective is more important than the actual objects.

When designing use as few values as possible

• Ask yourself while drawing: is it looking the way I pictured it? How am I picturing it?
• Keep things graphic in nature dimensional in execution 
  

Graphic LA - pgs 5-37, 58-82, 92

•  drawing is symbol making  
• Painting using geometric shapes and abstract textures:
• Keeps simple color scheme. 
• Reduce into basic shapes and value
• Conscious design choices required 

• REDUCE REFINE INTERPRET 
• Shape/design=large rhythms
• Form = contours/etching/hatching 

THUMBNAIL

• MAKE SURE READABLE WHEN YOU REDUCE VALUES 

REMEMBER: the relationship of the whole over the parts is extremely important. Focus on larger shapes, design and idea. 

Simple focus point. Make the scene easy to read.

Find and emphasize rhythms. Make excuses to show depth, overlap and form.

REDUCE, REFINE, INTERPRET. 

make simple shapes out of anything 

Color and Light Chapter 1: Tradition

Basics and Process

• Science of perception- 
• No color exists independent of eachother 
• Color is affected by everything around it
• First thing to look for-
• “In painting the first thing is to look for the general impression of color”— Jean-Leon Gerome
• Benefits of working outside
• Truer color
• Better grasp of atmosphere
• Maintains freshness
• Example: A FIsh Sale on a Cornish Beach by Alexander Forbes

• Hudson River school


• Paintings seem to glow 
• Increase pigmentation
• Focus on mood
• Example: The Andes of Ecuador by Asher Brown Durand

• Symbolist Painters Dreamlike quality 


• Used color and light to stir imagination
• Displayed ideals of beauty mixed with obsession 
• Reaction to mundane realism
• Framed glowing center with darker cooler values
• Example: 

• Magazine Illustration
• Full palette 
• Often red green pallette