colour balance

Colour balance is what makes a picture sit still. Zvonimir teaches it through an exercise built on a method of Paul Klee's — Klee taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar and later held a chair at the academy in Düsseldorf, where he worked on colour theory as both theory and practice. The session opens with his paintings on screen, the ones where the balancing is the whole subject.

The first twenty minutes are the task, explained. The remaining hundred are yours: a pencil sketch first, then paint.

Acrylics, brushes, pencils, paper, palettes and water are on the table when you arrive. There is nothing to bring and nothing to know beforehand.

Zvonimir has run this exercise with school groups and at an earlier workshop, and picked it for one reason: people who have never painted walk out with something that looks considered rather than like a first attempt. He says it helped him in his own work, which is the better recommendation.

Koloristička ravnoteža je ono što sliku smiruje. Zvonimir je uči kroz vježbu po principu Paula Kleea — Klee je predavao na Bauhausu u Weimaru, a kasnije i na Akademiji u Düsseldorfu, gdje se teorijom boja bavio i u teoriji i u praksi. Radionica počinje njegovim slikama na ekranu, onima u kojima je ravnoteža cijela tema.

Prvih dvadesetak minuta je zadatak, objašnjen. Preostalih sto je vaše: prvo skica olovkom, zatim slikanje.

Akrilne boje, kistovi, olovke, papir, palete i voda čekaju vas na stolu. Ne treba ništa donijeti ni išta znati unaprijed.

Zvonimir je ovu vježbu vodio sa školskim grupama i na ranijoj radionici, a odabrao ju je iz jednog razloga: ljudi koji nikada nisu slikali odlaze s radom koji izgleda promišljeno, a ne kao prvi pokušaj. Kaže da mu je pomogla i u vlastitim radovima, što je bolja preporuka.