Skies
Life Drawing
Cold - Chalk
Hot - Pastel
Pastel
Vincent Van Gogh
His hot/warmed coloured artworks often include both a mixture of orange and blue. Van Gogh’s The Night café (oil on canvas) is a good example of a painting that portrays a hot atmosphere because of his use of colour. The top of the painting seems to have a darker blue colour choice in comparison to the bottom of the piece which is a much brighter yellow colour. This choice of colour, almost imitates the colour scheme of a flame. As well as resembling the colours of a flame, the use of green, blue and orange is a good combination as they are colours that complement each other.
The ceiling lights are also portrayed in such a way that, the radiation of the heat is visible. This adds to the warmth of the painting as it almost imitates how extreme heat distorts your vision of what is beyond. The same colour and texture of the lighting then continues to fill most of the painting as it continues onto the café floor. Therefore, almost the whole painting seems to evoke both light and warmth.
The fact that the room is spacious and has a minimal amount of people could make the painting seem cold however the use of colour prevents this. However this style of painting can be seen as a setting which is in between 2D and 3D.
Blue – Orange – Yellow
Another of Van Gogh’s warm painting is Alychamps also created in oil paint. While the colour scheme is very similar to ‘The night café’ I particularly like this artwork’s balance and arrangement in colour. Again, the texture and the shape that Van Gogh’s brush strokes create, almost resemble the distortion in the air, in extreme heat conditions. This is what evokes the heat in the painting. The shape of the trees on either side also seem like fire flames. The perspective and the composition is also interesting because of the way it affects where it leads your eyes into.
Maurice de Vlaminick
In Maurice de Vlaminick’s piece, warmth is created from beyond with the colour of the sunset at the centre of the composition. The small tints of orange added to the trees make it seem as if the surface of each branch is reflecting the sun's colour. This effect also makes the branches look like theyve been previously set on fire and the flames have just dissapeared. The majority of the painting portrays both a neutral (green) and cold (dark blue) colour, the sun (orange).