Contrast Painting Assignment

For your next assignment, I would like you to think in terms of making a painting where your main concern is to work with the concept of “Contrast”. This is of course in addition continuing to use the medium of acrylic paint on canvas.

Contrast is a principle of art. When defining it, art experts refer to the arrangement of opposite elements when designing a work of art. A few examples would be:

• Light vs. Dark colors

• Opaque vs. Transparent

• Rough vs. Smooth textures

• Large vs. Small shapes

• Two Different Complementary Colors

            (Green vs. Red and so forth)

• Horizontal vs. Vertical

• Warm vs. Cool

• Color (hue and purity)

            (Black & White vs. Color)

            (Dark Blue vs. Light Blue

You may also think in terms of intellectual (conceptual)

·       Man vs. Machine

·       Love vs. Hate

·       Dumb vs. Smart

·       Poor vs. Wealthy

You may want to work with a photo or combination of photos for this project or even a couple of thumbnail sketches.

The project will be due in a week and a half. I will go over this assignment in class tomorrow. However it will also be posted on the blog for the class and I will also give you a hard copy of the assignment tomorrow as well. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions as to the assignment.

Also, please bring your last painting to class tomorrow as well.