Color & Light

This is an assignment that focuses on how color and light work together. 

I was asked to choose two pictures; one of a painting and the other of an object from real life, and its best if both show a strong value contrast and strong color relations.

My choices:  

• A Painting of Audrey Hepburn
• A porcelain object; a handpainted butterfly

Process: (the same process was done for both)

• I placed a suitable color for the background
• The first part of the assignment was to trace all the areas of light (lighter colors where the light hit)
• Followed by tracing all the areas of dark (the darkest colors)
• And then moving on to tracing the middle value colors

Slowly the original picture will appear in abstract shapes of colors! This exercise also shows which colors pop out and which colors fall in the background.. also known as the push and pull effect ..