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 along with building a compositional tool kit that can be used to better visually achieve an intended goal. It will also provide a comprehensive deconstruction of colour: covering all the necessary colour fundamentals for accurately seeing, understanding and applying colour, as well as the successful mixing of accurate colour and planning a colour design while exploring the properties of pigments and why that is important and useful for colour’s role within an image idea.
Course delivery will include lectures, slideshows, demos and whenever possible, feedback catering to students’ individual needs. Equal time is given to composition and colour development. Course content is relevant for both representational and abstract artists. Students working in any media are welcome.
Two sessions with life models will be included.
Base Tuition: $442 + Model Fee: $30 = $472 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
Since 1997, Gillian has exhibited in public institutions, artist-run centres and commercial galleries in Europe, USA, South America and Canada. Ideas draw from geopolitical events and their relationship to individual experience. She finds commentary within power dynamics, social constructs and systems of belief related to colonial Western culture; particularly their manufactured existence, illusionary value, tenuous persistence and questionable motives. Contradiction, impermanence and precarity are relevant at all stages – within idea, material choices and methods of presentation. Gillian’s practice spans painting, sculpture, constructions, sound & video. Installations merge real and illusionary space into a composite of realities and points of view. Often large-scale, her installations respond to the opportunities of a space and ways to implicate the viewer. She is a founding member of two artist collective galleries in Toronto - Propeller and Loop, and has been with Red Head collective since 2012.