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Painting Overview from Jacques de Beaufort

Painting 1 and 2 PBSC from Jacques de Beaufort

MOD

MODERN_FRED

Mod from Jacques de Beaufort


KULER

Color and Meaning

Color and Meaning from Jacques de Beaufort

FRANK-FRAZETTA-MANDALA

Frank-Frazetta-Mandala from Jacques de Beaufort



COLOR PALETTE GENERATOR

Color in Practice

Color in Practice: Case Studies from Jacques de Beaufort

Glazing from Jacques de Beaufort

Strategies for Color Unity

Strategies for Color Unity from Jacques de Beaufort

Color unity (cont) from Jacques de Beaufort

Mandala from Jacques de Beaufort

STAINED GLASS PATTERNS

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6 Color Scheme Tools

COLORlovers
The biggest resource community for colour palettes as well as patterns. Plus points that they spell “colour”correctly my British way.

Kuler
From Adobe it pretty much works the same way as COLORlovers where you also create your own schemes or edit others accordingly.

Colorotate
This site is a little more interactive and fun with the 3D elements. In addition there are few fun mixing/blending options.

Color Scheme Designer
The Wheel! A great resource for creating schemes as well options for “light-er” or “dark-er” versions.

Pictaculous
There are a few picture-to-colours applications but this is my favourite as, in my opinion, its most accurate. In addition to finding you colours from an image you’ve uploaded, it suggests other similar colour schemes from Colourlovers and Kuler. You can also download swatch files which I find useful.

Color Palette Generator (DeGraeve.com)
If you’re lazy or don’t have the image on your computer, this site lets you use URL’s instead.

also:
Color Matters 

REMINDER

THERE IS NO CLASS TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9 IT IS A STUDENT HOLIDAY PLEASE BRING YOUR COMPLETED PAUL KLEE COLOR STUDIES FOR NEXT WEEK AND ALL YOUR PAINTS! WE WILL HAVE A FUN PROJECT READY TO BE EXECUTED ON CANVAS SQUARES WHICH I WILL SUPPLY HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!

LC MURAL

LC MURAL PROJECT from Jacques de Beaufort

nice works....trippy

tonal progression

Gradation: Andy Gilmore from Jacques de Beaufort

Odilin Redon

The mystery and the evocation of the drawings are described by Huysmans in the following passage:

"Those were the pictures bearing the signature: Odilon Redon. They held, between their gold-edged frames of unpolished pearwood, undreamed-of images: a Merovingian-type head, resting upon a cup; a bearded man, reminiscent both of a Buddhist priest and a public orator, touching an enormous cannon-ball with his finger; a spider with a human face lodged in the centre of its body. Then there were charcoal sketches which delved even deeper into the terrors of fever-ridden dreams. Here, on an enormous die, a melancholy eyelid winked; over there stretched dry and arid landscapes, calcinated plains, heaving and quaking ground, where volcanos erupted into rebellious clouds, under foul and murky skies; sometimes the subjects seemed to have been taken from the nightmarish dreams of science, and hark back to prehistoric times; monstrous flora bloomed on the rocks; everywhere, in among the erratic blocks and glacial mud, were figures whose simian appearance--heavy jawbone, protruding brows, receding forehead, and flattened skull top--recalled the ancestral head, the head of the first Quaternary Period, the head of man when he was still fructivorous and without speech, the contemporary of the mammoth, of the rhinoceros with septate nostrils, and of the giant bear. These drawings defied classification; unheeding, for the most part, of the limitations of painting, they ushered in a very special type of the fantastic, one born of sickness and delirium."

Redon also describes his work as ambiguous and undefinable:
"My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined."

Redon's work represent an exploration of his internal feelings and psyche. He himself wanted to "place the visible at the service of the invisible"; thus, although his work seems filled with strange beings and grotesque dichotomies, his aim was to represent pictorially the ghosts of his own mind. A telling source of Redon's inspiration and the forces behind his works can be found in his journal A Soi-même (To Myself). His process was explained best by himself when he said:
"I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased."

 

see more Redon here

Color in Practice: Case Studies from Jacques de Beaufort