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ARCHIVE
2010

apr days
• color
concept &
theory widgets and apps

mar days
• red:
a portrait of a artist rothko

feb days
• talking
heads as figure/ground

jan days
• tanja's
black light dance party

ARCHIVE
2009

dec days
• tootsie roll pop wrappers colors & flavors

nov days
• stephen vitiello's four color sound

oct days
• atmospheric perspective

sept days
• a rainbow
of antioxidants
colors

aug days
• floor stain colorants

jul days
• minimal colors

jun days
• wildflowers cataloged by color

may days
• tennis court colors

apr days
• morandi's neutral colors

mar days
• grid colorists

feb days
• black as
film noir

jan days
• flood of toxic minerals used in paints

ARCHIVE
2008

dec days
• comple-mentary
colors

nov days
• kettle korn
packaging color change

oct days
• green fluorescent protein

sept days
• red palms - not green

aug days
• blue tunes

jul days
• “blue” - textile museum

jun days
• “fiesta- ware”
colorants

may days
• “blue alchemy” hive gallery

apr days
• “sennelier” selecting
watercolours for travel

Atmospheric Perspective

On a beautiful afternoon, I subbed for a fellow drawing instructor, Cindy Imhoff. She assigned her student to create the effect of distance, a traditional Renaissance technique. The Italian master painters used both value and color to create this effect.

For this assignment,no color was used, only charcoal. However, even without color, by using gray scale values, artists can achieve a very effective illusion of depth.

The red boat emphasis the illustion of depth achieved by the technique of atmospheric perspective: high contrast values and fully saturated colors are in the foreground, and in the background, the colors have less contrast, become lighter and cooler.