Mystery Painting Description
by Maya and Henry
Mystery Painting
recreated by our Walter Hays partners
On the bottom divide your paper in four sections without going through the circle. The right side is brown. The second to right section is dark, dark, dark, dark navy blue. (To make this color mix black with dark blue.) The second to the left section is yellow. The left section is the same color brown as the right section.
Divide the top of the page into three sections. Center the middle, yellow section. It's about half of the top part of the page. Split the left section in half. Color the half on the left brown and the one on the right brown and beige. The right hand section is brown.
by Henry and Maya
Our painting is called "Red and Yellow." The artist's name is Alexander Rodchenko. It was painted with paints on canvas. It is 90 cm x 60 cm. It is currently in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. It was painted in 1918.
The colors are really good and are very close to the colors in the real painting. The shapes are really good, too, especially the circle. We were amazed that they got the top part of the painting right, even though it was very hard to describe. There is just one thing wrong, and that is we said that on the bottom of the paper it goes brown, yellow, dark, dark, dark, navy blue, and brown from left to right. They missed the last brown part.
We should have said that the circle goes in the very center of the paper. We should have also said how large the circle was. When we said that the yellow covered half of the top part, we didn't say that the circle was the other half. That seemed to confuse them. To make it clearer we could have told them the circle was there. Despite all this, the picture was well done.
