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Posted by Jen in design & art on September 25th, 2008

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Value Creative - 4-value portrait

Posted by Jen in design & art on September 10th, 2008

As we know many successful design can be achieved with only two values. Presented here is a portrait painted in 4 values of the color blue.  Values are divided into light, medium, medium dark and dark. The hue I used for the portrait is premium blue.  The 4 different values are 0.8white + 0.2 blue, 1.0blue, 0.5blue + 0.5black, 0.2blue + 0.8black. The original picture doesn’t have such clear value difference on the face, therefore it’s quite tough to divide the portrait into different parts with 4 values.  But it’s also amazing to see that we can get quite effective result by painting in this way.

Materials: Gouche paint, water, brush, white paper, strathmore 400 drawing, color aid paper, etc

4 value painting girl in blue

Expressive colors, Shanghai

Posted by Jen in design & art on September 7th, 2008

The expressive colors image is to describe my favorite city - Shanghai. I basically seperate this image into two main parts.  The right bottom part is composed of the light colors green and yellow, which express the joyful and exciting aspect of the city. The left top part is composed of red and blue, with relatively low values. This is to express the clutter and high working pressure in the city. Overall, the colors are saying it’s a fast developing place, with very rush pace in daily life and many opportunities to expolore. In the picture, light colors are neighbored with dark colors, saturated colors are next to unsaturated colors, just in order to give the feeling of fast changes and full of suprise, which are the features of this city.

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