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This week's challenge is called
Blue Monday,
not only because the New Order
song by the same name is one of
our favourite songs, but because
this week's challenge is all about
BLUE and we're launching it on a MONDAY.
Blue Monday,
not only because the New Order
song by the same name is one of
our favourite songs, but because
this week's challenge is all about
BLUE and we're launching it on a MONDAY.
What do you think of when you hear the word 'blue'?
- the colour
- a place
- a boyband from the early 2000's (one for adults there!)
- an emotion
- a particular piece/style of art
- a thing
- a time of day/night
- a season
- or something else entirely
This week you are going to explore blue in anyway you want, using anything you want. There are A LOT of shades of blue to work with and a lot of different ways you could use them.
How many different shades of blue can you name?
Blue is one of the 3 primary colours, along with red and yellow, from which all other colours are made. So it's pretty important in art!
Through the years artists have used it effectively in their work. Titian is regarded by some people as the greatest artist of all time and particularly notable for his use of blue in materials. His example was followed by many others.
The Impressionists used blue, often next to its complementary colour orange, to make each colour stand out more and make their pictures brighter, such as Renoir and Monet.
And of course Van Gogh was rather partial to blue!
Have you heard the phrase 'feeling blue'? Picasso, going through a rather sad, difficult part of his life had his 'blue period' where he created artworks in just blue or blue/green.
So like any of the above artists, you could draw anything, as long as the main, or key colours are blue. Maybe making it really stand out by using some complementary orange.
Modern art is full of blues. From Jean Miro and Kandinsky abstracts to many, many more...
More recently the artist Yves Klein has been obsessed with finding the perfect blue, painting huge blue artworks in this colour alone!
Have a look at any artists you like and see how they've used the colour blue.
Blue colours are considered 'cool colours'.
As such they often lend themselves to wintery or nighttime scenes.
Rose did this scene only using blue watercolour paints. Blue is often seen as a very calm colour.
A whole world of blue awaits you...... the sea, water, reflections, rain, raindrops, underwater, the sky, space...there are a lot of potentially blue subjects out there!
As well as that, you could consider doing a still life in just shades of blue, or a person, or an animal or a place, like Picasso.
Or what about a pattern based picture in blue or a combination of cool colours or analogous colours....
Rose has also created an abstract string and ink picture.
A final idea to explore is The Willow Pattern Plate. The design became famous in Victorian times. It supposedly depicts an old Chinese story. In fact it was made up by Thomas Minton, an English potter, to appeal to the rising popularity in all things from China.
Watch this short animation of the story by some school children.
Here is an example of a Willow Pattern plate. Have you ever seen one?
If you get a paper plate or a circle of paper, you could do your own version, or tell a different story on your plate.
Hopefully some of the ideas above have given you some inspiration - I'm sure you'll have plenty of your own as you are such an imaginative, creative bunch!
It's going to be a very hot week, so this challenge should keep you cool!
As ever, take a photo of your finished art work and send it by Friday 26th June to:
Good luck!
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