Layering and colour

You will need

● White paper (A5 ) ● Your stick and ink drawings ● Pencil ● Ink/ water down paint (acrylic or gouache). Variety of colours. You can also use pencil crayons.

Tracing.

1. Stick ink drawing onto the window and trace the outlines onto a blank page. 2. Choose another of your drawings and, using the same paper trace your drawing. Do this until you have filled your page. 3. Outline all the marks you made in your drawing. 4. Do at least 7 tracings.

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You can add extra more complex lines in the background.

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COLOUR

Ninon Louw 2020 Triadic colours. These are colours that are ​ opposite each other in a triangular shape. Two of the colours will form 70% of your artwork with the third colour at 30%. In this example: 70%= dark orange, orange, yellow + green, blue green, blue 30%= violet. OR 70%= green, blue green, blue + violet, violet blue, violet red 30% orange OR 70%= dark orange, orange, yellow + violet, violet blue, violet red 30% green

Look at the red, green and blue combination. Within the red, green and blue, there are 5 different shades in each colour column. If, for instance, you use pale rasberry in the red column then match that with cornflower ​ ​ ​ from blue, and granny smith from green. ​ ​ ​

You can follow these combinations OR make your own 70%= red plum+green pea 30%=royal blue

RED PLUM GREEN PEA ROYAL BLUE

Baby pink Green cabbage Delphinium blue Pink hydrangea Spinach

basil

70%= bougainvillea + yellow 30%=cyan

BOUGAINVILLEA YELLOW CYAN

Purple bougainvillea Wasabi Cyan Purple bean Olive

Olive drab

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70%= turmeric + aniline 30%=malachite

TURMERIC ANILINE MALACHITE

Turmeric Lilac Broccoli Yellow ochre Rose of Sharon

Tan

Milk chocolate

I understand that you might not have the full range of paints to mix up the colours, but that's fine, the colours do not have to be exact. Try and get the tones as close as you possibly can. Or rather choose combinations that you can make with the colours you have. COLOUR Split complementary colours. Start with your base ​ colour i.e blue and then use orange and yellow as the other two colours.

Use this colour wheel to work out your own split complementaries. Here are two examples:

Azure + Orange and Yellow Cheese, Olive Oil

Shallow Sea Green + Pale Rasberry, Ham and Pink

Ninon Louw 2020 Here are my examples When you colour start with the background first TRIADIC COLOUR

Celery Elderberry background

Chartreuse Last colour for accent Cobalt Blue

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TRIADIC COLOUR

Back ground in Olive Oil Shallow Sea Green

Yellow Cheese

Last colour, Dark Magenta

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Background colour Delphinium Blue

Orange

Yellow Cheese

Last colour, Olive Oil

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SPLIT COMPLEMENTARY

Background colour Shallow Sea Green

Red

Ham Last colour Rose of Sharon

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