Nature: Image and Object

Nature Journal Assignment:  Color
Due:  Week 10  Friday 9 am


1,  Make a color wheel of primary, secondary and tertiary hues with your watercolors.  Hues like burnt sienna and yellow ochre are duller versions of the primaries so belong in the center of the wheel.  Label your  drawing.  Indicate examples of analogous and complementary hues.

2.  Choose one hue and make a value scale.

3.  Choose two complements and make a scale in which you dull their intensity.

The above three exercises are the same ones we did in class.

Make five pages of drawings in your nature journal in which you incorporate watercolor.  

Suggestions:

•    Make a series of event maps in ink with watercolor washes.
•    Do a series of drawings in which you exaggerate an essential quality of an organism in your site.
•    Do a sequence of drawings in which you increase the complexity of your use of color:

o    drawing using flat local color (don’t vary the value)
o    same drawing but use a monochromatic color scheme (one hue -- vary the value and intensity).  Here you would be changing the value to reflect how the light falls on the subject
o    same drawing but use optical color – so vary the local color to reflect changes in value and reflected light.
o    same drawing, but use an analogous color scheme.
o    same drawing but use color to express your feeling about the subject.

•    Invent your own approach.