Foundational Painting Exercises – USQ VIS1010 2022 – Semester 1 – 2D Foundations

Module 1 – Colour Theory and Still Life

Exercise 1 – Warm Colour Wheel
Exercise 2 – Cool Colour Wheel
Exercise 3 – Colour Match Cardboard
Exercise 4 – Colour Contrast & Colour Relationships
Exercise 5 (attempt 1) – Grey Tonal Scale
Exercise 5 (attempt 2) – Grey Tonal Scale
Exercise 6 – Continuous Line Painting
Exercise 7 – Layered Continuous Line Painting
Exercise 8 – Continuous Line and Grid Colour Study
Exercise 9 – Negative Shapes
Exercise 10 – Viewfinder, Reordered Perspective

Module 1 – Resolved Work Drafts

Draft 1 – Geometric Without Colour
Draft 2 – Simplified the shapes to tessellating triangles and concentric circles (Colour in dry watercolour pencil)
Draft 3 – Stacked and concentric circles (Colour in dry watercolour)
Draft 4 – Alternate stacked and concentric circles (Colour in wet watercolour pencil)
Draft 5 – approaching final draft, returning to draft 2 concept
Draft 6 – Warm colour wheel on canvas board.
Was originally the final resolved work, however I didn’t like the purple/purple-gradients that it created.
Decided each primary colour should be divided into warm and cool, then mix colours in a way that made more pleasing colours.