B is for Bloom
Week Twenty is Lemon Yellow, Saffron, Olive and Charcoal
Way back in the early days of Coloricombo (Week 26 of 2022), I featured a painting by André Brasilier. A few days ago I attended the Original Print Fair at Somerset house in London where this striking lithograph of his caught my eye, so I chose it for the #coloricombo palette that’s also used for two weekend bonus projects.
You might have noticed you’re receiving this colour prompt early! Here’s why:
The Colori Flori Summit starts on Monday and runs until the end of May and to get us in the mood for this floral and colour themed event, I created two bonus projects to be shared over the weekend. B is for Bloom is the topic of these projects and the shapes that are used in the sketchbook projects can be seen below.
Brasilier was born in 1929 in the Loire Valley and is remarkably still making art at the age of ninety six. His paintings’ vivid colours and sense of movement, often featuring themes and motifs of horses, nature, music, flowers and women, have been compared to those of Matisse.
The way he uses the white of the paper to indicate the shape of the female figure is so effective in this lithograph where florals and foliage are dominant.
“La Dame Blanche”, lithograph, André Brasilier, 1973
Colour Combination
The colours this week are Lemon Yellow, Saffron, Olive and Charcoal. Use them along with contrasting dark and neutral light colours to create an artwork in any medium or style.
Shapes
Along with the colour prompt I am including two downloadable sheets of letter shapes, this weeks’ shapes are mainly distorted versions of the letter B and the words B is for Bloom. You are invited to print out the PDF’s and use them in the bonus lesson coming up in my next post today
