Is That Color Warm or Cold You hear a lot about the terms warm or cool colors. There is a broad definition and a more detailed explanation for warm and cool colors. The basic definition for your primary colors are red is warm and blue is cold some refer to yellow as warm but I […]
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The Chroma Scale Chroma is an important aspect of Color. Remember chroma and intensity mean the same thing, it is how bright or dull a color appears. By having a variety of intensities with your colors you increase the the depth of your color relationships in your paintings. You seldom hear mention of the chroma
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Controlling Color Using Tertiary Colors Control your mixtures with a better understanding of the color wheel . Most colors of a painting are not colors right out of the tube. They have to be modified. As the artist we modify the value, intensity(chroma) or the hue. Sometimes we modify all three today we are going to talk about using
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Color and It’s Multiple Personalities Color is has three very distinct personalities or characteristics. This is why color has so much complexity however by understanding these aspects of color and how to identify them you can better understand the colors you are seeing. Understanding is more than half the battle in the world of
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Drawing Board the Foundation For a Great Drawing Drawing Boards are great supports for doing solid drawings. You can go to an art store to and purchase one for 10.00 – 25.00 or you can save a little money and have the board cut to any size you want. Almost all drawing boards are made
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Mixing Grays with Triadic Colors Control your mixtures with a better understanding of the colorwheel Greyed or colors of lower intensity are important way of controlling you color. The more intense colors catch more attention when they are surrounded by colors with lower intensity. 80% percent of you colors in representational painting will contain colors
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Giclee’ Prints, Artists print, Limited Editions, Open Editions Understanding the Madness of the Print Market Art is sometimes ambiguous, but understanding what you are buying should be crystal clear. In my earlier days when I showed my artwork at outdoor art venues I saw a lot of customers and patrons purchase items without understanding the
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Scratch Boards Great Way to Reverse Your Thinking Working from White to Black What are they? Scratch boards have been in use since the 19th century and were often used to make pieces of art that were easy to re-produce and could resemble woodcuts. The base is made of specially prepared clay which is white
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Creating Depth in Your Artwork Looking at many of the paintings of the great masters, I am amazed at the feeling of depth. Rembrandt painted scenes which appear as if you could reach right into them, or step inside and wander the countryside. Many artists have tried to discover the secret of painting pictures
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