Color monochromatic and layered color schemes

Color: Painting in Contrasting Layers

Monochromatic Color Schemes

Painting in Layers

• Bright underneath• Dull on top

• Red over a yellow/green under painting• Most of it is covered up, but some still ‘peeks through’

• Pink/orange underneath• Let it Dry• Dark blue on top• “clouds” are “holes in the sky”• (Georgia O’Keefe watercolor)

• You can let the bottom layer show through

• In this case, the leaves (brown) is the bottom layer

• Orange underneath• Blue on top• You can see one under

the other

• painting on a black background

• painting on an orange background

Monochromatic Color schemes

• Monochromatic color schemes create a strong mood

Kandinksy

color doesn’t exist independently of the lightThis creates MOOD

Claude Monet painted images of ‘white marble’ on a church which don’t look like ‘white’

Monochromatic color = Light/dark, Bright/dull, Warm/cool varieties of the same hue

Picasso’s ‘Blue Period’

Hirsch

Elmer Bischoff

Bonnard

Rothko