Tony O'Regan

Effects of Different Distances between Vanishing Points

Drawing a’Curvy’ modern car form

I have put up a few videos on drawing vehicles. Some very curvy, organic body-types favor using ‘sandbox-section’ method, some work better by constructing simple geometric shapes in an ‘additive’ manner, like the Model-A. It is always useful to analyze the designer’s intent, usually by clearly seeing gestures and alignments in side and frontal views (elevations).

Drawing a ‘Boxy’ car – like a Model A

COLOR AS TONE

It is obvious to sat here are many ways to paint. However, “Color as Tone” is a fundamental way that will develop all your color abilities. Whether you are a beginner or even a more experienced painter it is valuable to re-visit this skill concept. I don’t claim originality here – many painters use this concept one way or another. It works for all genres including abstraction.

First, revisit the idea that Color has three main CONTRASTS:

HUE – basically the way we ordinarily name colors, red-yellow-blue, etc. These create different color temperatures, relative warms and cools.

INTENSITY – also called ‘brilliance’, ‘purity’, or ‘saturation’ – so you can have a relatively brilliant red or a subtle rusty rose, a brilliant blue or a dull grayish blue, a brilliant yellow or a muted beige-yellow, etc.

TONE – the lightness or darkness of a color compared to a nine-step scale of grays. So, we can have a dark blue (about ‘8’ on a gray-scale or a light blue about ‘3’ on a gray-scale, and so on for all the hues)

When you buy paint it will have a combination of these three contrasts in the tube. It will have one more contrast: ‘personality’, which comes from the pigment that made the particular paint, such as ultramarine blue versus cobalt blue. Here, I am concerned with the main three contrasts of Hue, Intensity, and Tone.

It is great fun to splash around with various hues and intensities and many fine paintings use each these qualities for their own sake as the main issue. BUT – if you want to get a good grip on the use of color, first focus on COLOR AS TONE and master it. Most paintings can be read very well as a black and white photo. Suppose you paint an image carefully as a black-white or as a monochromatic ‘under-painting, eg. Portrait, still-life, landscape or abstraction . You can then be quite playful painting over it with various, even arbitrary or random, hues and have a very interesting color painting, as long as you MATCH THE TONES of the grays that are in each area of the under-painting (also called a “grisaille”). In fact, a great many paintings were done in this way prior to the availability of cheaper paint in the 1800’s. So this course is going to focus specifically on seeing and using COLOR AS TONE. When you master this idea, you will have a very important tool

This is a sequence that I often use when employing the Tonal Design Process. I do this directly in color, but they could be done as grisailles and then adding color over. If I do as an under-painted grisaille I usually do it in tones of blue, which I find works best when applying other hues over. Also, Column 4 shows examples of ‘grisailles’ in each major genre. The top three were done as watercolors, The last one is acrylic. But all can be done this way in any medium:

Review Videos for Semiahmoo- Drawing the Face (4 session course Fall 2016)

I have dropped a number of videos into this Category which might be useful for review of the Semiahmoo Drawing the Face Course material, Fall 2016. The numbering may seem a bit random, so this is likely the best order to watch in:

Relating to Day One/Two Semiahmoo:

‘MANIKIN HEAD’ BLOCK-IN, SEMIAHMOO ARTS, VIDEO #1 OF 5 VIDS, (DAY ONE)

‘MANIKIN HEAD’ BLOCK-IN, SEMIAHMOO ARTS, VIDEO #2 OF 5 VIDS, (DAY ONE & TWO)

‘MANIKIN HEAD’ BLOCK-IN, SEMIAHMOO ARTS, VIDEO #3 OF 5 VIDS, (DAY ONE & TWO)

‘MANIKIN HEAD’ BLOCK-IN, SEMIAHMOO ARTS, VIDEO #4 OF 5 VIDS, (DAY ONE & TWO)

‘MANIKIN HEAD’ BLOCK-IN, SEMIAHMOO ARTS, VIDEO #5 OF 5 VIDS, (DAY ONE & TWO)

Relating to Day 2 Semiahmoo:

Art in the Country – Toward the Portrait – PROFILES – (Vid 4 of 7) {Mar 16 2016}

Art in the Country – Toward the Portrait – FEATURES pt 1 – (Vid 5 of 7) {Mar 16 2016}

Art in the Country – Toward the Portrait – FEATURES pt 2 – (Vid 6 of 7) {Mar 16 2016}

Relating to Day Three and Four Semiahmoo:

DAY 6 Shadbolt TAS Drawing Head & Face – MUSCLES & CARICATURE (5 of 5) {Nov 2015}

Shadbolt Tony’s Art School Drawing & Shading The Face (1 of 3) {Nov 2015}

Shadbolt TAS Drawing & Shading The Face (2 of 3) {Nov 2015}

Shadbolt TAS Drawing & Shading The Face (3 of 3) {Nov 2015}

‘MANIKIN HEAD’ BLOCK-IN, SEMIAHMOO ARTS, VIDEO #1 OF 5 (DAY ONE)

Please note: Some video tutorials are exclusive to students currently enrolled in courses at Emily Carr. If you are already logged in but you cannot access this content, if may be because you do not have the required membership level. Please contact Tony if you are interested in a course.

‘MANIKIN HEAD’ BLOCK-IN, SEMIAHMOO ARTS, VIDEO #2 OF 5 (DAY ONE & TWO)

LIFE DRAWING & FACE-FIGURE SESSIONS AT SEMIAHMOO

Previous LIFE DRAWING

MODEL SESSIONS

AT SEMIAHMOO ART & REC CENTER

Life Drawing

The Semiahmoo Recreation and Art Center will sponsor an “open” life drawing session, Friday mornings 10 am – 12:30noon, from Sept 16th thru December 2 (12 weeks). Tony O’Regan and/or Susan Falk will organize models (draped & undraped) and room, lighting, etc. The Center will commit to sessions every Friday, if it proves viable and this would be repeated after Christmas.

The sessions are ‘informal’ in the sense that there is no formal instruction. Participants pay $50 for 5 session parcels, which can be spread throughout the 12 weeks. Members of the Arts Council can have 6 sessions for the price of 5. There will be a subscriber/ attendee list at the door for name check-off. We may consider promoting a show at the end (at least on the internet). Payment/registration can be made at the Arts council front desk when you arrive or beforehand.

Semiahmoo Rec-Arts Center, 14601 – 20 Avenue Surrey, BC V4A 9P5

Past Classes at Semiahmoo Arts

All supported by demonstration – instruction on Tony’s video website www.toregan.com

Semiahmoo Rec-Arts Center, 14601 – 20 Avenue Surrey, BC

4 MONDAY EVENINGS Fall 2016 –

Drawing the FACE:

Mainly drawing, using charcoal and a variety of other mediums, but with an emphasis on portraiture, lighting and expressions, hair, etc. We may also explore basic color mixing for fleshtones.

All supported by demonstration – instruction on Tony’s video website: www.toregan.com

4 MONDAY EVENINGS Fall 2016 –

Drawing the FIGURE:

Aimed at drawing the individual figure, draped and undraped, in situational poses – stand, walk, sit, recline. We will explore anatomy, lighting, gesture, twists, turns, etc. Great for life drawing and all figurative work.

Four Mondays, 6:30 – 9:00 pm, Nov 7 – 28, 2016

Winter-Spring 2017 – MONDAY EVENINGS – DRAWING FOR PAINTERS:

Using charcoal and a variety of other mediums, we will learn 10 Ways of Seeing and Drawing, of use for anyone, but of special benefit to painters: Gesture, contour, mass, space, shading, silhouette, tonality, figure-ground, perspective, composition. A variety of subjects will be explored, villages, perspective, people in streets, landscapes, still-life. Materials not included – list will be supplied.

Four Mondays: 6:30 – 9:00 pm; Jan 16, 23, 30, Feb 6

IN THE NEW YEAR 2017 – 5 MONDAY EVENINGS

PAINTING IN WATERMEDIA:

Choose to explore either acrylic or watercolor. Subjects will be explored and demonstrated in both mediums. Special focus on West Coast Landscape this session. Materials not included – list will be supplied.

Five Mondays: 6:30 – 9:00 pm; Feb 20, 27, Mar 6, 13, 20. All supported by demonstration – instruction on Tony’s video website www.toregan.com

Semiahmoo Rec-Arts Center, 14601 – 20 Avenue Surrey, BC