My finished mask project "Fire and Ice".

How Artists use Proportion

1. How do exaggeration and distortion affect proportion?
Exaggeration and distortion affect proportion by deviations from expected, normal proportions. Artists can lengthen, enlarge, bend, warp, twist, or deform parts or all of the human body. By using these changes artists can show different moods and feelings.
2. What distorting effects can artists use? 
Distorting effects that artists can use are body language and what  they appear to be feeling(emotion).
3. Why do artists use distortion?
Artists use distortion to portray comedic or serious expressions. For example, comic books/strips. Usually comic strips use larger proportion than life. The most distorted comic strips are often the funniest.
4. How can artists create monumental qualities without using a large scale?
Artists create monumental qualities without using large proportions by more exaggerated items.

Mask Assignment

For our new assignment we have to create masks using our own experience with paint skills. For my mask i am using the elements, ice and fire to represent 2 sides of my personality. I am using the technique of washing on base colours and adding streaks of  different colours to create a "water" affect. For the "fire" side of my mask i am washing on 3 colours (yellow, red, orange) and creating red spread apart streaks to look like lava.

                 

Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat is a famous painter who created a well-known painting called Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte. It took him approx. 2 years to complete the entire painting. 

Making Browns

There are two ways to make brown:

1) Mixing even amounts of red, yellow and blue.
2) Mixing a complimentary set.

Intensity

Colour intensity is the degree of when a colour becomes lighter or darker. When mixing any colour (yellow) using the colour across from the colour wheel mix it together and using small amounts of black or white keep adding the shades/tints to the colour to make it more or less intense.

Hue (Colour)

Hue is the meaning of a pure colour (a colour without white or black pigment added). The Primary hues are blue, red and yellow. They are called primary because every colour can be made from them but no colours can create them. When mixing two primary colours together you create a Secondary Colour (green, violet and orange). When mixing a primary and a secondary colour together, tertiary colours are created (red-violet, blue-violet, red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green and blue-green).