color & line control

Tools

Color guide palette

· Desaturating color

· Emphasis & subordination

· Web-only color picker

Line quality

· Stroke palette

· Brushes palette

Layers

In class assignment:

Add three new layers, and copy/paste your still life on each layer, or duplicate your original layer three times. Name your four layers “original,” “desaturated,” “scale,” and “repetition.” On each of the new layers you’ll be making adjustments to your original still life composition.

1. Desaturate your colors on every object but the focal point, either by adjusting existing color or adding translucent shapes on top.

2. For the scale layer, adjust the sizes of your still life objects, and break the picture plane with one of them.

3. On the repetition layer, I’d like you to use repetition & variety to create an entirely new image using only those objects.

We’ll look at these new images before class ends.