In this exercise we are exploring complementary colours, either warm or cold not sure I got my head around the concept of warm and cold colours. Simplistically I would state that red is a warm colour and blue is a cold colour, but then, when start to think of different blues as being warm or cold then I begin to struggle... cerulean blue colder than ultramarine blue?
The following quick watercolour studies (no longer than 5 minutes) were done from observation.
The next studies where imagined scenes
Emile Nolde is artist who work my tutor suggested I take a look at....
Emile Nolde (1867 - 1956) is considered one of the first Expressionist painters. He painted many vibrant watercolours, examples of which..
Sea with Violet Clouds and Three Yellow Sail Boats, 1946
Sunset over Blue Mountains, 1938
In 1942 Nolde wrote*:
There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed.
*quoted in Nolde-Forbidden Pictures (exhibition catalogue), Marlsborough Fine Art Ltd., London, 1970,p.9
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