Blog Presentation

Agnes Cecile

Resize Me

The illusion of transparency: a color illusion in which opaque medium is used to create an illusion of transparency.  Cecile uses watercolor, acrylic, oil charcoal, charcoal, ink, pen, and pencil to make this look like there is a slightly transparent, larger face over the smaller face in the center.

Heliotropic Girl

Complimentary colors:  Chromatic opposites direction across from each other on the color wheel.  In this piece, there are some violets, but mostly blue and orange are used, which are complementary colors.  The violet is very watered down and transparent so that the blue and orange are most apparent.

The Water Workshop III

Analogous colors:  Colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel.  This piece uses a lot of colors in the range between and including blue and red.  So blue, blue violet, violet, red violet, and red are primarily used in this piece.  The only other color used here is yellow, to add some contrast and highlight.

You have to stay, do nothing

Color and Quantity:  color in relation to the surface area that it occupies.  In this piece, Cecile sketched out the composition, but did not fill it all in with color, controlling the quantity of color in the piece.  Even though it uses a minimal amount of watercolor, it is still clear what the piece is trying to show.  It also really brings the focus in on the mouth, nose, and eyes of the figure, because the rest of the face is just sketched in.

The game of making structures

Hard Edge:  two colors of opposite levels of saturation, or value, are next to one another.  Watercolor can be hard to create a hard edge with, and Cecile's style doesn't usually consist of hard edges, but this piece has some hard edges.  Because she chooses to use violet and yellow, and the yellow is so saturated, there is a hard edge created between the child and the string they are holding.  This draws attention to the string first, since it stands out, being the only bright yellow part.

Agapornis

Vanishing Boundary: two colors of close saturation and value are next to each other and the boundary between them becomes nearly invisible.  Cecile creates a vanishing boundary by using analogous colors of similar saturation.  She also uses the medium of watercolor to her advantage, causing the colors to blend together and losing the sense of a boundary between colors.