A Tale of Four Seasons

This summer has been nothing short of intense.  I've officially finished five weeks, and two more of my summer courses (Furniture and Introductory Drawing) are un-officially over. For the first time since school started in June, I feel like I can breathe, taking the moment to relax and look back. Honestly, I can't believe that it's already been five weeks AND also that it's only been five weeks.

That being said, I'm sure the only mellow moment I'll have this week is right now as it's also the final week of my Design II: Color course.  This means, it's time to paint, paint, paint!

In preparation of our course final, we had to create four larger panels each depicting a different season. This project, as our final will also be, had fewer defined rulers that we had to adhere to and much of it was up to our own digression:

How do we think each season should be portrayed? What does it look like? What does it feel like? 

To be honest, I was very excited for this project, but I also found it very difficult, especially autumn:

I'm not entirely sure why, but I had a hard time grasping Fall. Maybe it was the colors. Maybe it was the limited motion (I feel) that particular seasons portrays. My winter panel looks about the same as when I had originally imagined it. Spring took some inspiration, but I am so so so happy with out it turned out. I love combination of the colors and the negative white space. And then there's summer. Summer looked differently in my head than it does in practice. A part of me loves it. I really do love the vividness of the colors and the splash of relief from the blues, but I think I overdid it on the splash.

Ever curious, I decided to take a peek around the WWW, and here's a little of what I found (and loved):

"Winter Sky" // Karuna Rajanayakam
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Abstract - Spring Landscape // Linda Donohue
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"Autumn Mosaic I" // Simon Fairless
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Which pieces do you prefer? Feel free to share links of pieces you love as well!

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Until next time -

LG