Composition and Colour
9 Week Class | Available
This course is intended to provide students with a solid understanding of the potential of the picture plane and design variables, building a compositional tool kit that can be used to better visually achieve an intended goal. This course will also provide a comprehensive deconstruction of colour: covering all the necessary colour fundamentals for accurately seeing & understanding colour, choosing appropriate pigments, successful mixing of accurate colour and planning a colour design. We’ll explore important colour variables and how to successfully manage them, including the properties of colour, the properties of pigments and why that is important and useful, and colour’s role within an image & idea.
Course delivery will include lectures, slideshows, demos and whenever possible, feedback catering to students’ individual needs. Course content is relevant for both representational and abstract artists. Students working both representationally and abstractly and in any media are welcome.
Two sessions with life models will be included.
Base Tuition: $432 + Model Fee: $30 = $462 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Seeing colour accurately and understanding the properties of colour
- Tone, hue & saturation applied to mixing, applied to content rendering and design of image
- Building a compositional skill set – a list of compositional variables to consider
- Understanding the application of colour and composition in relation to an idea
- Working through colour &/or compositional problems
Gillian Iles
Gillian's practice consists of painting, sculpture and video/projection. She has exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Brooklyn, Chicago, Miami, Montreal and Toronto in public institutions, university galleries, artist-run centres and commercial galleries. Her work has been highlighted in Canadian Art, Mix Magazine, Toronto Life Magazine, as well as the National Post and The Globe and Mail. She is featured in the book Carte Blanche Volume 2: Painting. Gillian was a founding member of two artist-run galleries in Toronto - Propeller and Loop, and is currently a member of the Red Head Gallery in Toronto.
Her environmental scale installations include combinations of paintings, sculptures, constructions video and projection, creating installations incorporating both real and illusionary space, transforming exhibition spaces into a composite of alternate realities.
The composite imagery presents an array of contradictions as a sensory collage of fleeting instants that shape greater social identity & individual perception.
Gillian teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Sheridan College and the Toronto School of Art in Canada.