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If you are up to a challenge, pick a colour and set up a pallet of different values for that colour. You can create the values by adding white and black to your colour and make your own Guernica!

MONOCHROMATIC AND NEUTRAL COLOURS

 

A painting that incorporates tints and shades of only one colour is called monochromatic. As you can see from the picture below light tints tent to recede from you, while dark shades tent to advance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neutral colours include black, white, grey, and sometimes brown and beige.

They are also called “earth tones.” Picasso's Guernica, which uses a palette of grey, black, and white, is known as one of the most moving and powerful anti-war paintings in history.

Cubists originally used only neutrals to call attention to the multiplicity of viewpoints they combined. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                           Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make your own monochromatic Landscape trying to create an illusion of distance using tints and shades of only one colour.

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