Color Strategy in Art
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2021
- Color is a critical part of art and is one of the primary methods of conveying emotion in a painting. In this video, artist Jill Poyerd guides viewers through some of the basics of color theory and then demonstrates how Masters may have used that information to plan their color strategies throughout history.
* Note: At minute 7:57 I mention the painting was by Sargent. It's actually a piece by William Bouguereau.
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At minute 7:57 I mention the painting was by Sargent. It's actually a piece by William Bouguereau. My brain must have slipped up as I was researching both artists at that time in preparation for my video Master's Process Part 3 (which features both). At some point I may re-release this video with the correction.mixed
I love your videos so much! They really display and inspire a deeper appreciation for art.
I thought it was a Sargent as well.
Light is the Mother and Colors are her children. Wonderful presentation, thank you!
Thank you for posting: I always look forward to you excellent videos. You make it look easy, but you don't fool those who have tried posting a "decent" video. I was fascinated on how you explained such complicated theory so we can understand, from physics to the development of the painting wheel, and how to analyze color schemas. It will take me some time and several views of your video, to fully understand this concept. Keep posting videos, please: you make MANY of us happy to find high quality content in UA-cam!
Thank you for that, maria-dolores. I really appreciate it, and it's my pleasure to be able to put them out there.
thank you so much for returning to UA-cam! Your voicing is as tranquil as these masterpieces, and explained the color strategies so clearly.
Thank you so much, Danny
So happy I found this channel. Thank you.
I love your channel so much! Thanks for everything!
What a fantastic video! There is so much good information packed in here. I love the selection of paintings used in your examples.
You have an innate skill of being able to explain abstract and complicated concepts in a way that the lay person can understand. You’re the best. Thank you. This video is a keeper.
Thank you so much. That is one of my goals.
A wonderful video, thank you! Looking forward to seeing more!
Another absolutely fantastic video, thank you so much
Beautifully done! Thank you!
This was gorgeous! Not an artist myself, but I love art and have a keen eye for it. This made my understand why I like certain pieces compared to others. I will use this technique when looking at art. Thank you!
Another lovely video from you. Thanks!
Thank you so much for making this video! As a monochromatic (mostly black & white) artist who is venturing into color, this has been very insightful!
Flawless presentation. Thanks.🙏👍
That was easy and great! Thank you!!
What a good explanation of colour use. Really instructive.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I appreciate it.
Love your expertise and your beautiful voice.
Thank you for your wonderful, peaceful videos. Excellent ! Happy new year🎋
The knowledge and research that it takes to put something like this together is amazing.
Thank you...it was a joy to do.
Thank you for this really helpful & interesting video.
So happy to have found your channel! Thank you for the invaluable information.
I'm glad you're enjoying my material!
I noticed that at 7:57 minutes. I am a huge fan of Bouguereau. Great video. Thanks for sharing it with us.
I love your videos so much, I learn a ton at every one of them! Thank you for making theses, they really bright my day!
I'm so glad, Carolina!
Outstanding.
This is a GREAT video on COLOR. Thank you Jill, its just AMAZING!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you, please keep it up❤️ you are helping me alot because I live in Lebanon where I can't get too much Art education plus we are living in a crisis now that going to an art teacher has become a challenge so you are now my art teacher, i depend on you so keep posting more, thank you 😍
What a meaningful comment. I can't tell you how much I appreciate knowing that. It's my honor to be able to instruct you!
@@JillPoyerdFineArt and it's my honor to be your student 😊🌹
ur voice is so soothing!! love the video!
Your soft narration is equally enchanting!
Thank you...
Addicted to this channel
I’ve taken your classes before and they were excellent. I will be taking this one for sure. Thank you Jill.
I'm glad you enjoy my work, Dennis!
Interesting and insightful analysis thanks
I love listening to you Jill. You have quite a mellifluous voice.
Thank you, Dan
Wonderful video, great job! Thanks!
Thank you so much!
Excellent, as always
Thank you
I couldn’t appreciate your videos more. They are so lovely. I watch them over and over. Thank you for providing such rich art education and expanding my appreciation as a result of your insightful explanations of masterful works of art. I’ve also purchased some of your classes on Udemy and finished the oil painting process one recently. Working my way through your brushstrokes course, and the color course, I am greatly blessed by your teaching style, and am learning a lot as a beginner.
Thank you so much, Jerri. I’m so glad you’re enjoying my videos and classes!
I am a photographer, portrait specifically and my main inspiration for my work is both cinema and paintings. This channel is absolutely a joy both to watch and listen to. Thank you so very much.
Very appreciated, Guillermo - Glad you enjoy my work!
Superb!
Your classes in udemy have helped me immensely. Though painting watercolors for the past 10+ years. It was always unstructured and confusing. After taking the class, now I pre decide whether it would be allaprima or sectional etc. that way able to plan ahead. Must say the outcome is much better and enjoyable. this video is another insight to work on. Thanks much!
That's so wonderful to hear! I'm so glad my work has helped you and has improved your output. Very rewarding to hear.
That was awesome! I use at least 7 colors known as septic on the chart.
Your videos are outstanding for both content and your voice and your delivery.
Thank you, Linda!
Interessantíssimo!!
Beautiful, lovely and your voice is a work of art as well....Full of colors❤
Thank you so much…
Your videos are wonderful. I am a natural artist, discovering a talent I never knew I had until well into adulthood, so, with no formal training. I'm trying to understand 'what' and 'how' I do my work... Your videos are so soothing, detailed, wonderfully explanatory and are helping me to unravel myself. Thank You. 😌✨✨✨✨🌟
I'm so pleased! I love to hear how people benefit from the material. It's very rewarding.
Very well explained!
Thank you, David (and nice to see a familiar face!)
Great video
Very well presented and so helpful. 15th-17th c. artists learned color directly from Nature, writing about "Color Harmonies" and "Color Formulas" in their manuscripts which can be observed consistently in their paintings. The earliest-known color wheel specifically for artists was found in a watercolor publication by Claude Boutet: Traité de la peinture en mignature (The Hague, 1708). Jill, you explain so well how simple color can be, that is very enlightening!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Very interesting comment, as well
Thank u so much for uploading new videos, i really looking forward to your contents, it helps me a lot
I"m so glad it helps you, Khanh!
so nice.
Thank you for the powerful video. I took colour theory in college but you've explained it better
Thank you so much
I will be your roadie. Jill Poyerd fan for life. Getting my tattoo soon. Much love
I'm flattered!
What a total BUMMER. Thomas Dewing? Really? You just had to show him. First time for me. Two big discoveries from the video: 1) I really love Thomas Dewing paintings, even though I'd never seen any before watching your video, and 2) A few years ago, The Brooklyn Museum showed a bunch of his paintings-- about a mile from where I live. Because of you, now I know what I missed.
On the other hand, the whole video is not just fascinating for a neophyte like me, but it's beautiful. The paintings of course, are wonderful. Your descriptions are graceful and interesting. And the music is gorgeous.
Thank you. Totally looking forward to watching more.
Oh gosh. That is such a shame to miss that exhibit! I'm glad, though, that I was able to introduce you to his work! You may like this piece: Dewing painted a Steinway piano for the Theodore Roosevelt White House...a stunning piece of art and instrument. Here's a write-up and links:
"A symbol for the Gilded Age, the Steinway piano was painted by Thomas Wilmer Dewing in 1903 on the occasion of the Steinway & Sons company’s fiftieth anniversary and was given to the White House during Teddy Roosevelt’s administration. (This instrument itself was the 100,000th piano produced by the company.) Painting in the style of contemporaries like Whistler and Thayer, Dewing portrayed the nine muses coming to America; his wife, Maria Oakey Dewing, contributed to the design. Rachmaninoff played the piano once, and it entertained the administrations of Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and both Roosevelts."
americanart.si.edu/blog/eye-level/2006/30/1253/dont-miss-these
instagram.com/p/CAfx4L6jGqq/
I am a colorist that uses color differently than most and I teach it very differently. What I really appreciate is your break down. When I first work with artists I eliminate black, white, and all earth tones like umbers, ochres, and siennas. Only high key colors. Under paintings & drawings are done with dioxide purple or violets because they can be pushed to be cool or warm. White is usually brought back in when there is an understanding of the value in the colors they have. Tertiary colors can create brown tones without getting muddy. Also I do believe in arbitrary color. Your perspective is fresh for me and yet somehow so familiar since that is the way I learned to paint. Your videos are lovely.
Thank you for sharing that, Margaret. It sounds like a very interesting approach.
I love your videos. Blessings
Fantástico. Te quedó muy bien esta presentación. Felicitaciones!
Como todas tus presentaciones, excelente!
In England, we say, Richard Of York, Gave Battle In Vain!
So good
Thank you so much for explaining the color choices the artist were making. That has always confused me. Thank you again.
I'm glad it was helpful, Marylu.
Thankyou
Fantastic video! The piece by Sargent 8:09 looks like a photo. Thanks for posting!
I really love that piece, in particular...
@@JillPoyerdFineArt Isn't that bouguereau?
@@adammeszaros8207 It is....I created this video while researching the one I just released that covers both artists. I think my brain just mixed them up. I made note about the mix-up in the description but am debating taking the video down to make the fix. Sadly, I'd lose all comments and stats. Ugh. Debating.
Thanks!
Thank you so much, Camoline! That's very appreciated.
As someone to went to university to become a research biologist, I’d only had a single Arts class requirement. My senior year & the only one available was a 400 level Baroque & Rococo Art History. I remember thinking to myself, “How hard could this be compared to all my science courses & my research?
Well I found out just how hard it was, w/ zero background 😂. The wonderful art historian who taught the course, took pity on me, & allowed me to do some reports on different artists to bring my grade up, bc I was useless on the slideshow exams. The amount of knowledge that man had in his head about art, & how it relates to the events of that time; what happening socially, historically, & culturally during specific periods, was encyclopedic. Humbled me in a very necessary way.
Now I’m retired from research, & have begun to paint landscapes in oils. I’ve invested an enormous amount of tim, learning online, & from an artist I take a zoom class from. Still, I often feel like I’m missing some important pieces of knowledge when it comes to oil painting landscapes, & I want to be a better artist. Your mini art instruction classes are so good!
I really like the original Hudson River School artists (where I live actually), but am particularly drawn to the Tonalists. Might you consider doing a piece on the Hudson Valley School artists such as Beirstadt & the like? Or American Tonalism perhaps?
That class must have been a great experience. I love that it made an impact even after many years. You hit on two things I love as well - the work of Bierstadt (which is best seen in person...) and Tonalism. I will write down the ideas for possible use in the future. Both would be a joy to research and produce.
As for learning oil painting, I know exactly what you mean about feeling there are holes in your knowledge. I remember feeling that way at one point. It's actually why I created my online oil painting class and one of the videos on my channel: The Hidden Layers of Oil Painting (ua-cam.com/video/AIKpU64NoBI/v-deo.html)
I hate to sound self-promoting, but you may want to watch the preview for my oil class, The Oil Painting Process (ua-cam.com/video/wJgPXO7JI7E/v-deo.html) and see if you think it might help you. There are so many confusing techniques and terms in oil painting, that I felt it was important to lay things out clearly for viewers.
Thank you. I will stop feeling inadequate for using only one color.
Oh, I love monochromatic work, personally! In fact, I tend to lean that way at times. It's hard for monochromatic work to stand next to a colorist's work, but on it's own it can be quite impactful.
Thanks for this video. I had already read various books about color, but, in some way, this video summarized some of that content.
P.S.: I saw your courses in Udemy, they seem to have been made with great care/effort. If God permits, for sure I will buy them, thanks again for the content and initiative.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I do try to make my classes as interesting and comprehensive as I can with the objective of really teaching students how to paint. I hope you can try one at some point. UDemy does periodically offer good sale prices. I also have some sale prices on my website (jillpoyerd.com). At least UA-cam is free...Nice that people have that option.
Thank you for opening my eyes to the fact that the colour wheel contains geometry by use of the various colours schemes you have described here. I may have to watch this video over and over again in order to acquaint myself with these masterful colour schemes. I wonder if you have put this information contained in these videos, in book form? If so where can I purchase such a book?
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Paul. I'm afraid I don't have this information in book form, and I honestly don't know of a book that approaches the topic from precisely this angle. I do, however, teach an online class based on this video. Here's a link if you're curious: www.udemy.com/course/understanding-color/?referralCode=CD97373E9CEE2671F044
Very helpful video. Unfortunately, there seems to be very little information online for Marie Ferdinand Jacomin. May I ask in what museum the painting featured at 11:15 hangs?
It is surprising considering her talent. Her painting that I feature in that spot is found in the Baltimore Museum of Art (artbma.org) in Baltimore, Maryland (USA)
I liked this video so much, I've kept it on several times. Your presentation really keeps me in the space of these masters. By the way, at about 08:00, I think you misspeak and say "Sargent" when you mean "Bouguereau". Again: Love the video, and your choice in paintings!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Yes, I'm definitely know about that mess up. I think my brain switched the names because I was researching both artists at the time in preparation for my latest video (which features each). I may have to take down the video at some point and fix it.
0:09 What is this painting called and who painted it? Thanks!
Such a striking piece.
Isn't it gorgeous? It's "Sunset on the Plains" by Albert Bierstadt
at 7:57 you said the painting was by Sargent, I believe it to be by William Bouguereau. Great video though! Colour is always fascinating.
Oh gosh! You're absolutely correct. Darn, I wish I could fix that. I don't know how I and my two reviewers missed that! I just made note of that in the video description. Thanks for catching it.
@@JillPoyerdFineArt haha, no worries. I almost feel bad saying it now, a tiny error you will never un-see.
I think most will just look past it. It doesn't take away from the video and those who notice will understand.
@@samuelalvarez_art No, no, I'm glad you showed me so I could at least note it in the description. But you're right...I'll never not see it! lol
There are 2 types of color wheels with complementary red with cyan and red with green. I wonder which way is correct, hope you can help me
Yes great video. Thanks. I have a hearing difficulty and though your voice is lovely and clear the background music made it difficult to take in new words. I am not sure why but the cc (closed captioning) was not working. Thanks though it was very informative and I feel the need to paint a colour wheel!
I'm glad you enjoyed it, Fran! I'll check on the CC right now. Hopefully, I can find the issue.
Hi Fran - I just checked on it and resubmitted the captions. It looks like it's working now. If not, let me know!
Using the word "strategy" makes color seem more sophisticated than it is. Only form and values are important. If the values are right you can use any colors you want. Or no color at all.
Well, I'm not in complete agreement with that because there are color combinations that are less than pleasing to the eye, but I appreciate your perspective. This topic can be so subjective that I expect I'll be seeing many other perspectives as well, which is perfectly fine. It's nice to weigh other ideas.
That "earthy" coloured painting by "Sargent" (7:58) is by Bouguereau.
Oh, how I know. I don't know HOW I made that mix up other than perhaps because I've been researching those two artists for my current series and my brain simply mixed them. Even my reviewers didn't catch it. It kills me. I may have to remove and fix the video at some point (but then I lose all of the stats).
@@JillPoyerdFineArt Hi Jill! I lecture on art history and on painting techniques, and if I had a euro for every slip of the tongue I've made …. Please keep making these marvellous videos: they're important and much needed. John.
@@michaeljohnangel6359 Thank you, Michael
At 8.23 who is the painting by and what is it called? i like it
It's called "A New York Blizzard" by Childe Hassam. I love that one as well.
i feel like in reality if you could ask them what their colour strategy was they would just be like "strategy? i just chose the ones that look the best together.."
Maybe! But also...maybe not. Unless they put it in writing, we will never know. Some color placement definitely looks strategized. It's interesting to contemplate the topic.
What about colour appearance in different light conditions?
Oh definitely. That is important. I do teach that in my landscape composition videos...such as how objects appear warmer the closer they are to your view and cooler as they recede. I thought I touched on that here, but maybe it was in the related class.
The painting at 8:05 is Bouguereau, not Seargent.
Oh, how I know. Several others have mentioned this, and it kills me that I overlooked it (so obvious!). I'm currently working on a series featuring the two of them, which must explain the mix up. I may have to fix it and reload the video someday.
7:59 is William Adolphe Bouguereau not Sergeant
I know. It's a complete oversight - not a lack of knowledge. I may have to re-release this video at some point with that fix.
Are there any combinations that are not recommended?
Wow, great question. I'll have to research that when I have more time. I know there are because I've seen combinations that are hard on the eye (my eye, at least), but what was it about those combinations that was so off? Hopefully, I'll remember to get back to you....
@@JillPoyerdFineArt Thanks for your response. I will check too and if I come up with anything interesting, I will pass it on. I am retired so I have the time.
Enable subtitles ins this video, please. Greettings from Brasil.
Hi Cristiano - I just added them. I hope! Let me know if they're still missing.
@@JillPoyerdFineArt Thank you! So much! Obrigado!
@@JillPoyerdFineArt Hy, the subtitle in this video still missing, because de audio is set to spanish, but is in english.
Is it scientific to convert achromatic to chromatic?
Hmm, I'm not sure what you mean. Do you want to clarify? Achromatic refers to those that are white, grey, and black. I'm not sure how you would convert them to chromatic colors, but you can certainly propose and idea.
Who's painting is at 5:06 min?
It's "Setting out to Fish" by John Singer Sargent
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Oh gosh- for some reason the new code I typed in this month didn’t save. I’m very sorry- thanks for bringing it to my attention. It’s corrected, and if you use code FEBRUARY2022 it should give a nice discount. Let me know if there are any issues with it. Apologies again.
@@JillPoyerdFineArt THANK YOU!
Really makes you wonder if El Greco suffered from a form of color blindness...
(Not knocking his immortal works, just wondering.)
You honestly do have to wonder. There's an interesting blurb about his elongated figures and the eye on this site: findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/news/5699-how-eye-disorders-may-have-influenced-the-work-of-famous-painters
Sorry, but that's Bouguereau, not Sargent. The name is even visible on the placard next to his painting, "Breton Brother and Sister."
I know. A few others caught that as well. I CANNOT believe I overlooked it (as well as my reviewers). As I mentioned to the others, the only thing I can think of is that because my current project involves both artists, my brain must have subconsciously mixed them up. The question for me is whether I need to remove this video, fix it, and re-release it. I may have to.
@@JillPoyerdFineArt It's unfortunate that UA-cam does not allow revisions to posted videos - that would make things so easy to fix. [short of that, just yank it and re-dub!]
I hope by "project" you mean "video", as Sargent is my absolute favorite, and I would certainly look forward to a video featuring his work as well.
Very nice work overall, by the way. Thank you so much -
I wonder how much of the artists pre-industrial revolution actually spent intentionally designing a piece in color, and how much just got inspired by a color combination they saw and replicated that. A woman will wear her white dress and will accidently stand near a white wall thus creating the pale -white on white composition with an accent color her dark hair and reddish skin color.
I often wonder that as well when I see people's work. From research, it seems like it goes both ways. Some artists in history really got into color theory, while others went on instinct.
This discussion of color seems overly abstract to me about using color. Inventing a strategy for using color to paint canvas veers off from the point of seeing color. The big trajectory of painting was toward a kind of understanding of realism. Something like how color photography is supposed to look like what you see. Hence this sense of realism most people can see easily enough. The strategy of a color wheel has little or nothing to do with exploring that in painting. The power of painting is that it is open to developing ideas of realism or veering off into abstraction. The color wheel tells us nothing about why for example Cezanne had such influences upon the culmination of painterly realism in the 19th century. Or why seeing color has such power.
That´s not a Sargent it´s a Bouguereau
I know. Two others pointed that out as well. I mentioned to one of them that it must be because I'm currently working on a project that features both of them. It kills me because it's so obvious, but without reloading and losing all of the video stats, I'm stuck with it.
Great video. People are unaware of these "strategies", but when you are, things are never the same again. I work as digital retoucher for nearly 20 years, in our field it is often referred to as "grading", although the term means several slightly different things actually, its best meaning is a color design and strategy overall, as very beautifully explained in your video.
Sometimes if you grapple purely instinctively for a good color scheme, and then analyse what you have done, it will often fit into complementary or split-complimentary scheme, perhaps with a few 'jarring' notes that are unexplainable. Personally I tend to think it's what some of these artists were likely doing; They were using their minds-eye and the colors available to them. Whether they were consciously aware of what they were doing with the wheel is another matter, although I suspect some like Turner, as you say, may have been.
Theoretical knowledge in any field is a double-edged sword. A great thing but also a danger. It's the same as the belief that more music theory will always produce a better musician, it can occasionally be an inhibiting factor. Perhaps if you're led to believe too early on that "it's all science", your belief in magic disappears?
Thanks your videos are very good.
Very thoughtful commentary...