Course work: Repainted the intermediate steps in the yellow-to-blue row to make the steps more even; painted the red-to-yellow row, using cadmium red light and cadmium yellow light. With the yellow-to-blue row, one obtains a series of greyed greens that would be useful in landscape painting; the tendency toward neutrality is accounted for by the relative distance of the parent colors on the color wheel, even though both are “warm” colors. With the red-to-yellow row, one obtains a quite satisfactory orange series, because the parent colors are fairly close on the color wheel, and both are “warm” colors, as is the desired orange mixture.
Reading and theoretical studies:
Stephanie D’Allesandro and John Elderfield Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-1917
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2010
Pp. 222-240
Sketchbook work: A short set of color experiments using Prismacolor markers selected as the closest matches for cadmium red light, cadmium yellow light, and ultramarine blue.
Weekly reflections on learning experience: This has not been a very productive week. A day of illness, two days devoted to assisting my wife with setting up, conducting, and cleanup of one of her charity fund-raising events, and one day mostly occupied with driving to a neighboring state to retrieve a piece of farm equipment from the repair shop have taken their toll: the urge to nap is stronger than the urge to work.
Time today: 52 minutes
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