I don’t remember this assignment from The Famous Artists School. I’m sure she used magazine advertisements as the models. She did that a lot.

This first one garnered many comments and suggestions:

• Experiment!
• See how an imaginative sky color adds to the sunny effect? (arrow to sky)
• Richer tan flesh colors
• Blue and orange are complementary (contrasts) (arrow to shirt, outlined in orange)
• Yellow is complemented by violet (arrow to ocean as contrasted to yellow sky)
• Warm (arrow to green in pants)
• Cool (arrow to sand?)
• Warmest — most intense color in foreground

This one only had a couple of comments

• Deeper values — cooler bluer colors — think of moon as a cool light source (arrow to moon)
• Keep shadows flat — little light is reflected at night

This last one was praised.

• Values quite good!
• White stripes help to relieve intensity of background (pointing to stripes in background)