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Simultaneous Contrast Flying Insect Assignment

This document provides instructions for a project to create an imaginary flying insect with a two-dimensional wing design and three-dimensional body rendering. Students will choose two complementary colors and use them to design the wing pattern, showing effects like color vibration or how a color appears against different backgrounds. They will then render the insect's body in pencil to illustrate lighting effects like highlights and shadows. The final piece will be an acrylic painting combining the wing design and shaded body on an illustration board.

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Simultaneous Contrast Flying Insect Assignment

This document provides instructions for a project to create an imaginary flying insect with a two-dimensional wing design and three-dimensional body rendering. Students will choose two complementary colors and use them to design the wing pattern, showing effects like color vibration or how a color appears against different backgrounds. They will then render the insect's body in pencil to illustrate lighting effects like highlights and shadows. The final piece will be an acrylic painting combining the wing design and shaded body on an illustration board.

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Simultaneous Contrast Flying Insect

Learning Outcomes:

To discover the effect on colours when placed beside one


another. To explore colour relationships in a project that
combines two dimensional design with three dimensional
rendering of form.

Each student will create an imaginary flying insect with a


two dimensional design on its wings, while maintaining the
illusion of a three dimensional body.

Process

Do a bit of playing with two simple shapes in pairs of complementary colours in either paint or on a
computer. Place smaller shapes (positive shapes) of one colour on top of larger shapes (negative
shapes) of its complementary hue. Also, play with neutral greys (made with with black and white)
on the different colours having them lean towards a hue. (Example: a neutral grey on top of a yellow
could make the grey look purple.) Decide which complementary pair you like best for your insect.

In terms of colour, your 2D design will be created by mixing colours only from your 2 complementary
colours and black and white. It will show how colours can change when placed beside or surrounded
by another colour. (Can you make the colour appear stronger or different in terms of hue, does it
vibrate, or differ in terms of value.) Your design will use repetition (at least four repetitions). The
design for the wings should show one of the following: 1. Colour vibration 2. The effect of different
background colours on a single colour. 3. Depth illusion due to colour.

Consider the examples shown in class. (eg Bezold Effect).

Rough

Design:

In pencil crayon or on your computer, come up with 3 thumbnail sketches of possible design ideas.
(take no longer than 30 minutes on these and then share them with your breakout group to come to
a decision as to which is your most successful design). Keep it fairly simple as you will have to
replicate this in paint in your final work. All three thumbnail sketches should be placed with your
Rough on the final board. The final design will be in colour onto the wings of the insect in the rough
either in pencil crayon or on the computer.)

Rendering your insect’s body to show form:

In the rough, to give the illusion of three dimensional form of the insect’s body, render it in pencil
illustrating and labelling the following: 1. Core shadow 2.Reflected light 3.Highlight(s) 4. Cast
Shadow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dqGkHWC5IU&t=532s How to shade (Proko)

https://www.cgattic.ca/realistic-butterfly-drawings.html (eg of 3D form displayed on a butterfly


drawing)

Final

Using the chosen design for the wings and the tonal analysis for the body, do an acrylic painting of
your flying insect. This will again use only colours mixed from your complementary pair plus black
and white.

Size: The full presentation board is 15” x 20” illustration board. The actual painting of the flying
insect will be approximately 8” x 12” (leaving room to paste your neatly cut out 1” squares of the
every colour used in your piece – paint these as splotches first and then cut them out later- make a
square 1” x 1” and then trace around it on top of your splotches). The rough (including the 3
thumbnail design sketches) and the pencil and coloured labelled study of your insect should also be
on the board.

The Final is worth 15% in addition to the 5% for the Rough.

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