[Archived Class 1] Lurker's Lair - Week THREE

[Form]

This thread is for all lurkers to follow along, post their tasks and discuss. The only difference being, I wont be checking this thread myself, so I can make sure i devote all the time i have for the forums to helping out the ten students directly, otherwise we are spread too thin.

Thanks, Adam

[warry]

Hi.
I have choose a landscape of Huysum, Jan van :
A classical landscape with the Worship of Bacchus, it's an oil painting .
http://www.allartclassic.com/img/Jan_van_Huysum_HUJ001.jpg
The painter uses close colours except for the sky: Red/brown/orange/yellow
http://lg.art.free.fr/hue.jpg

One can distinguish 2 distinct parts at the lighting, 1st on the left is in the shadows,
The painter uses different brown/red/orange in the leaves of the tree that look like green or yellow .
For the second part,
Illuminated by the Light, he uses the same colors but with a higher luminosity, we can see more of the will of the painter to bring out some characters.

The characters and their clothes :

The man in red dress, the dress is made in 2 parts: an orange and red. Red used is very saturated and has a luminosity to equal to that surrounds decors, while the orange is a bit saturated, but has a very important luminosity.

The part reflects the light from the sun:
_ Average Saturated
_ Important Luminosity

The shaded portion of the dress has these characteristics:
_ Very Saturated
_ Average Brightness
http://lg.art.free.fr/robe.jpg


Two mens wear dresses seem slightly bluish but in reality the painter remains in the same shades, using a dark red near the black for the part and a shaded gray for the enlightened.

The sky :

For the sky , the painter uses very different hues, these shades of green approach to the top of the trees and then slipping into blue. He uses for the sky a strong luminosity similar to that used to clear parts of clothing and low saturation.

Colours used :

http://lg.art.free.fr/schema.jpg

The second Painting : Caspar david Friedrich
http://www.reprodart.com/kunst/caspar_david_friedrich/der_watzmann.jpg

Like the other painting in the part reflecting the light of the sunn there are more luminosity and less saturation. I realy the Blue/white coulors in the mountains.
We can see what kind of triangle in the composition :
http://lg.art.free.fr/triangle


Recent painting :

http://lg.art.free.fr/barron.jpg

A landscape by Gary Tonge.I realy like the sky, the green and the yellow/orange create a very interesting aspects.So this contrast between the two colours wich have different hues and saturation, brightness make a beautiful fantasy atmosphere. The sky is in two parts, the lighting part wich is composed by yellow and orange and the clouds, the separation is not sudden :
http://lg.art.free.fr/separation.jpg

The lighting reflect on the rocks and the structurs have the same lumonisty that the sky , but more we move away more the lumonisty on the structurs is declining .The contrast is highest in the forground than in the background .
http://lg.art.free.fr/t1.jpg

An other painting : by Shan xue jun, THE KEEP OF ORC

http://lg.art.free.fr/baron2.jpg
http://lg.art.free.fr/t2.jpg
As we can see, the coulors are very more different and that give a real wonderfull aspect to the landscape .
Under construction


Conclusion :

_ The contrast is hightest in the forground than in the background...
_ The color of the lighting source ( sky) change the colour of the environment in the lighting areas but not in the dark areas.
_ More an element is far more it blends into the background .

I don't know whats is the "Temperature" in a painting .. ?

[algenpfleger]

Alright, another week :D Have to catch uuuup~

This is gonna be hard to write in english.

These are of course not mine and I'll remove them if the artists don't want to see them here

First one i chose is by Albert Bierstadt. What really blew me away about this painting is that it has all kinds of hues. Ranging from greens, yelows and oranges in the clouds in the top left, over a lots of reds and oranges in the area with the boats, to all kinds of blues, purples and turqoise-ish colors ind the shadows and the water.
Saturationwise this picture also is ver interesting, i found that the sunlit beach has the highest saturation and really draws the eye.
There's also a nice interaction of cold and warm tones in the painting, which supports the story it tells, and enhances the composition.

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Next one is by Anders Zorn, and dude, that guy knew his colors. Even though it's not a pure environment, i still chose it because of the interesting colors.
Most stunning is how the painter creates such depth with so little effort. The colors are already very desaturated, so towards the distance, Zorn made them lighter to achieve that effect of atmospheric perspective. The sky has the warmest colors, mostly pale oranges and yellows, while the sea consits of greys, blues and purples in the midtones, very dark purples and blues in the "shadows" (you can't really call it shadow, because it's just the reflection of the boat and the bridge), and very desaturated, light highlights.
The most saturated ares are the faces of the two people, making them the elements that draw the eye the most.
The overall use of desaturated, blueish colors makes the scenery feel very cold, and along with the waves on the water.

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Now for something modern. This piece is atmospheria's LMS entry and HOLY SHIT what an excellent example of color temperature. There's not much that needs to be said about the interaction of the blues and purples in the shadows with the reds and oranges in the lit areas. But what really sells this piece is the strong reflected light on the lower half of that stone bridge. I think this is an important part of realistic lighting; the sunlight bounces of that red rock surface, which means, only the hues which are not absorbed are reflected, and then these hit red rock again, and again most hues but the warm ones are absorbed. What's left is this very strongly saturated tone, that adds so much to the scenery. The highlights are very cold and dull. This is because the light from the sky is much more diffuse and reaches where the direct light from the sun does not.

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Last one is by our buddy Craig Mullins. First thing to notice is the distance haze which creates a lot of depth. The colors in the foreground are very diverse, just as you'd find them on the street. I'd even call them dirty, as they're desaturated but still livelso the highlights are dull and there's no real cast shadows.

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I shall now have breakfast and then do this week's portfolio piece.

[algenpfleger]

'Dreamscape'
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I wanted to make the foreground pop out by applying richer and more sturated colors, while making the higher areas seems cold and far away with colder tones like blue and turquoise. The spikes got red tips to add a bit more variation, not sure if it works.