Final Drawing and Painting of the Horse in the Style of Matisse

         The dominant complimentary colour scheme in my piece is the complimentary colours of yellow and purple. I made them appear more dominant than the other colours in my painting because I used these colours for the horse (focal point) and are in the centre of the piece. Also, the yellow stands out from the blue trees in the backround and the dark red background colour. The yellow, being beside the purple throughtout the horse, allows both colours to be dominant. I choose this complimentary colour scheme because the two colours go well together. The colours also have a greater difference in lightness and darkness than other complimentary colour schemes.
         I used pattern in the foreground to create emphasis in the horse. The pattern I used was alternating the complimentary colours cutouts (parts of the horse). This pattern emphasized the focal point because the pattern creates depth and brings the horse into the foreground. Also, the pattern creates movement in the horse, which attracts the viewer's attention.
         The process began by learning about Matisse and his paintings through a video. We learnt his style and had to apply that to our horse. We used the horse that we originally drew, before we 'Picassoed' it in the previous project, and now had to 'Matisse' it. It was hard at first to change it because I didn't really know his style very well. But after looking at a few painting, I realized that Matisse used curvy lines and disportionated objects in his pieces. I add my curvy lines to my horse and disportionated some of its parts (e.g. made the head much smaller than it should be). After changing the horse, I painted a couple small pieces of paper, with one colour on each. Then, I cut out these pieces into shapes that I would put in the painting. I cut out blue trees, purple parts of the horse and yellow parts of the horse. Then, I painting the backround dark red. I glued the cutouts onto the painting. Lastly, I added the trunks of the trees and the hairs of the mane in a black colour. I decided not to outline the object in the piece because it felt that Matisse's art was free flowing and outlining objects would take away the movement the Matisse so magnificantly created.

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