Why use a limited palette when there is conceivably every color of paint under the sun made by a plethora of art companies at our disposal? While artists will no doubt debate over the brand of products, I adopted my painting teacher’s limited palette and have been thrilled with the success. What I found were limitless possibilitiesContinue reading “A Limited Color Palette Part I”
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Vibrant Color Part IV
Shadows are interesting. Before the Impressionists came along with their love of painting outdoors, the studio painters tended to paint shadows as darker shades of the prevailing local color. With observation we can see that there is not only color in light but color in shadows. Unless something is completely dark there is some colorContinue reading “Vibrant Color Part IV”
Vibrant Color Part III
We learn the color wheel as children. The most basic version of the wheel has the primary colors of red, yellow and blue and the secondary colors of orange, green and purple. We look at that wheel to see how secondary colors are mixed from the primary and to see the complimentary (opposite) colors.Continue reading “Vibrant Color Part III”
Vibrant Color Part II
A key in learning to paint color vibrantly is observation. When we are young we learn that the sun is yellow, tree trunks are brown, the leaves are green and the sky is blue. After we learn this elementary approach to color we tend to stop looking. We really don’t observe in large part how lightContinue reading “Vibrant Color Part II”
Vibrant Color part I
I grew up with the term “artist” attached. My parents were the most encouraging parents in their support of my artistic endeavors that I could imagine. And so I am very blessed. My mother did (and still does at age 88 ) paint portraits and my father was an extraordinary craftsman. I attended good schools withContinue reading “Vibrant Color part I”
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