color + creativity | fall study

Lesson: assessment   presentation + examples      Tutorials: Blend color pencil   Draw an apple   Draw a rose

A) Create a COLOR WHEEL using color pencil

Quarter size circles

Layer colors for SECONDARY + INTERMEDIATE colors

B) Practice drawing a FALL OBJECT using color pencil

1. medium

2. light

3. dark

C) Draw 1-3 pumpkins, apples, leaves or flowers

• Fill 50% of page; off center [rule of thirds]
• lightly sketch contours of subject

D) Add value + color

1 - medium values (orange, red, royal blue, green)

2 - add in lighter values (yellow, white, pink, light: blue, light green)

Artist Mica Angela Hendricks
collaborates with her 4-year-old
daughter, combining their two styles.

3 - leave + add dark values (BLACK OF PAGE, purple, dark blue, dark green, brown)

E) Draw from different PERSPECTIVES or angles

F) Add PATTERN Use LOW CONTRASTING colors to add repeated shapes + lines: orange, red, royal blue, green, purple, dark blue, dark green, brown