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| Laraine painting her night sky composition |
This was the first time I had run a course on painting night skies. As research beforehand i took photographs of coloured pieces of card at different times on a sunny day starting at 10am and ending at 9.30pm. The pieces of card were the primary colours of yellow, blue and red. This was to determine the effect of diminishing light on the coloured card. Through the series of photographs it was clear to see that as the day drew to a close the coloured card became cooler in colour. Most interestingly at 9.30pm the yellow card was only just visible, the red card had completely disappeared and the even stranger was that the blue card was still visible.
On the next night I took photographs of the scene which we were going to paint in class. I took these photographs as before at various times of the day - from 2pm, 5pm, 7pm and 9pm. The results were as expected that as there was less light there was less colour. The one taken at 5pm especially had become washed out as if devoid of colour, but in contrast the one taken last of all at 9pm had taken on an atmospheric appeal of muted purples, indigo blues, highlighted by pinpricks of light from the pier.
The paintings created by the students are shown here. These were on the whole successful and were a very good lesson in mixing extremely subtle shades and tones of the same colour.
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| Original painting by Laraine 2017 |
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| Original painting by Andrew 2017 |
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| Original painting by Kate 2017 |
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| Original painting by Liz 2017 |
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| Original painting by Rosemary 2017 |
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| Original painting by Peter 2017 |
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| Original painting by Doreen 2017 |
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| Original painting by Sandra 2017 |
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Happy Painting!
Lee 🎨
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