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<\/a>As you can see, there is a pleasing collection of simple shapes.\u00a0 All were white, but the varying depths of shadow gave a variety of tones.\u00a0 These we checked against the grey scale to assess just how dark a white surface can be!\u00a0 And painting the image wasn’t too easy either.\u00a0 It’s so hard to believe that “white” can be that dark.<\/p>\nThe next part of the exercise was to reinterpret the image in any way possible.\u00a0 some turned the shapes into buildings, some selected one or two shapes to create their own design in colour, one even found ballerinas in the upper outline!\u00a0 I decided to cut the whole shape into “tiles”, rearrange them, and use colour to paint the tones on each segment. My students have been working on tonal value this term.\u00a0 We started with a grey scale and a black and white print of\u00a0 a still life. As you can see, there is a pleasing collection of simple shapes.\u00a0 All were white, but the varying depths of shadow gave a variety of tones.\u00a0 These we checked … Continue reading “Black and White, and Colour”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>\u00a0 This gives you some idea of the guidelines I used.\u00a0 I had seen an image of an entirely white set of tiles mounted in sunlight, the varying raised lines on each tile caught the light, and the whole image changed as the sun passed over it.\u00a0 I was hoping to achieve something as interesting using colour.\u00a0 The lines you see show the top of the little box and the curve of the drum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"