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Cecilia - 516830
Learning Log
Practice of Painting 1



Still Life with natural objects
For my natural objects I decided to paint rock crystals I collected at various times over the years which I had in the cupboard, because...


Still life with flowers
For this exercise I wanted to experiment with a looser approach and more vibrant colours than my normal work, based on a flower vase...


Drawing in painting
For this exercise I made a few sketches before making my final decision I thought a sketch of my paint brushes would be interesting, so I...


Still life and Flowers - 17th Century Dutch painting and 18th, 19th and 20th century Still Life.
Well before the Dutch, Still Life paintings appeared in antiquity, as in this 1500 BC Egyptian funerary painting discovered in the Tomb...


Complementary colours
For tis exercise I created three concentric circles divided into 12 equal segments, painting the outer circle with the 12 Chevreul...


Broken or tertiary colours
1. Orange to Green – for Orange: Lemon Yellow and Cadmium Yellow plus Cadmium Red with Alizarin Crimson, and for Green: Prussian Blue and...


Primary and secondary colour mixing
For this exercise I was required to identify my primary colours and to lay down small amounts of pigment of my yellows, blues and reds on...


Mixing greys - anachromatic scale
For this exercise I was required to mix black pigment with white and work in a sequence from pure white through the greys to pure black. ...


Chevreul Colour Theories
The exercise was to research Chevreul Colour Theories and how they were used by artists to expand the possibilities of painting. I tend...


Assignment one
I chose to do a still life so I could apply a glazing technique using water-mixable oils (WMO), to try to achieve the drama of the...
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