Mastering Muted Color
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2021
- We all love vibrant color. But for much of what we look at, in fact, the color is muted. How to create rich, engaging muted color, without just creating a muddy mess? This video gives you some suggestions of how to do it.
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Amazing how such a seamingly simple scene of mundane everydayness can turn into one in which we find ourselves drawn in, wanting to study it, to really look at it and be introduced to the hand of the artist.
Fabulous demonstration.
Agreed
Really appreciate your letting me know. Thank you.
It really demonstrates that it's not just about subject matter, but that the _composition_ is key
I watch quite a few artists at UA-cam and very rarely do I have an “aha” moment where some of the fog that lives perpetually in my head clears. I had that today when you were discussing the puddle of paint and pulling colour into the puddle. I always feel so surprised when something that feels so complicated gets resolved by such a straightforward technique. You also made a comment that I found very insightful about the temperature issues with mud. Thank you very much. 👏🏻👍🏻😃
I agree, I've just completed my historical interpretation acrylic painting of many weeks. I'll speed up. Today I'll mix and copy your painting, an exercise made simple.
Thanks so much Luna. I really appreciate your letting me know it was so helpful. Best wishes.
Hi Jonathan, I think that sounds like a good plan. A faster, looser interpretation of something after weeks of tighter, slower painting.
You literally couldn’t have said it any better! Wow
I couldn't agree more , Ian please do a video on mud because of wrong temperatures , you can use any of my paintings!
Et voila, here is the finished painting, ( I always like to hear Ian saying it), those muted colours have transformed the photograph into something of interest, the gradations and transitional areas just a pleasure to see come alive. Many thanks Ian.
Thank you so much. Delighted you enjoyed it.
I expected you to show yourself mixing those colors on your palette, after the intro stressed that different technique. Loved the example itself!
So love this. Thank you. It feels like a modern day Andrew Wyeth.. The calm everyday scene.
Thanks Janet.
I just cant thank you enough for these videos. I’ve learned so much. I appreciate your time and effort and instruction. thank you again.
You are very welcome
I want to title this delightful painting MOVING DAY. Enjoyed this.
Our youngest is going to college in a month and my wife had pretty much the same title for it.
This is so fascinating. It reminds of marco bucci’s videos on coloring in the greys!! His videos are mainly for digital art, but love the concept
Yes, interesting, subtle colours - all looks 3-dimensional. Thanks, Ian.
You are welcome Jane. All the best.
Fascinating approach to color mixing. Thank you! Lovely painting too!
Thank you so much Pat!
Rich engaging neutral color gives this painting great harmony and subtle beauty.!!
thanks for this great lesson in the SuBLIME!
Really happy you liked it. Thank you for kind comments here. Best wishes.
Finally a simple explanation about muted colours!
Delighted you enjoyed it
Every Demo you do is fantastic. BUT...this was an EXCELLENT Demo on use of SUBTLE colors. This technique should be taught to every beginning artist. I think that would make such a difference in understanding color and how to "modulate" color to make a painting work. The first subjects to study are line drawing and perspective. Then how to modulate color. Thank you for all you do. Every time!!!!!
So glad you liked the video Mimi. Best wishes.
It is a beautiful painting and composition ! the colours are great and subtle ! Thank you so much !
Glad you liked it Christine. all the best to you.
I have tried to paint an old gray barn with very muted and subtle changes. I kept wasting a bunch of paint making separate puddles of three or four colors. Not sure why this wasn't obvious to me, but starting with a single puddle and slightly mixing in the split complementary colors did the trick! Thank you very much for the video!
Love the gray puddle in the middle tip...Thanks...Great video!!!!
Thanks Ramona. All the best to you
Really lovely painting! i think i'm attracted to it as a subject of mundane objects that illustrate the beauty of light. I also think its so cool how you modulated the lighting in the reference photo to have a single focal point. Very cool!
Thanks Danny. Glad you liked it.
Your painting is so beautiful!! I LOVE muted colors!! I also LOVE the light and shadow in your paintings. I am excited about your teachings on perspective next week ... a COMPLETE mystery to me, perspective is!! THANK YOU IAN for allllll your EXCELLENT videos!!
Thanks so much. I am working on perspective now.
Thanks for the neutral puddle mixing idea and a great demo.
portrait of the shoes: love it! most pop contrast
Thank you very much for talking through the process
So funny that I watched this today as literally yesterday I was applying some finishing touches to a painting and had to rub them out as the color looked muddy on the canvas while at the same time, it looked a beautiful hue on my brush. I did not come to the thought you shared here but resolved by pushing my color closer to the ones already in my river to get away from the muddy look. Really appreciate all you share with us.
I'm delighted you found it helpful.
Amazingly explained Video! Wanted to learn this for quite some time! Thanks so much! :)
Great! Delighted it was helpful.
Thank you so much! I’ve been trying to figure out muted colors for the longest time and this helped so much
Thank you, Ian, you are a gently spoken man... I love your teaching ♥
You are so welcome!
thank you boss roberts. respect.
Good work Ian ,thx!
Thank you for such a great lesson! You are a wonderful instructor. ❤
Thank you so much Dana.
Amazing idea !
Love this. Excellent technique
Ian, thank you for moving me in the proper direction visually. Your elucidation in words and in paint has allowed me make up for more lost time than I care to remember. With your help I have finally been able to compose my painting and paint what I see.
Very glad to hear it. Thanks for letting me know.
I remember seeing some paintings in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, which is one of my favourite art galleries, and the colours were very muted. I stood for ages looking at them. “Pastures New” by James Guthrie was one of them. It’s long overdue for another visit! The last time I was there, I got there from the city centre on an old rout-master bus! Really took me back to my childhood and the journey ended all too soon. I was reluctant to get off, such was my enjoyment 😂.
Gorgeous!!!! Love it! Thank you so much!!!
Nailed it again Ian!! You are able to effectively transmit complex painting technique concepts into accessible, easy to understand and implement terms. I can't wait until next Tuesday"s lesson!!! Thank you so very much!!!!
Thanks for letting me know Jan. I appreciate it .
Thank you!
Much love! Thank You!
You are welcome!
Seems like pulling from the middle and having a bit of that color in many if not all of the other colors is also a way to create unity and harmony.
Thanks so much for doing these videos!
Glad you are enjoying them.
Great concept, mixing out! Thanks.
Wonderful sense of light. Made me think of some of Hopper's interiors. What starts out looking very neutral ends up quite colourful when everything's in its place.
Thanks Ken. Glad you liked it.
ohhhh.. just Love this painting 🙏 💕
Beautiful
Thank you Ian. And that is a beautiful painting.
Thank you!!!
This is the first time that I have heard an explanation of "muted vs. muddy colors". It is nice to know that I have stumbled into the right direction when mixing muted colors. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and skills.
You are most welcome Donna.
Really helpful and you explained how to accomplish painting muted colors really well and very easy. In the past I have tried to use a purchased tube neutral warm or a cool gray and mix my colors into them. I always came away with a muddy mess that did not look cohesive. Your method keeps the colors harmonious which is what I am after in my paintings. This is one of the very best demonstrations on how to mix muted gray's with out them becoming muddy. I love it! Thanks so much!
Hi Debra, I'm glad you found the video helpful. By adding a neutral to all your paint it's true the whole effect gets not really muted but dull. All the best.
Brilliant. Thanks Ian.
Thanks Thomas
Thanks 🙏 Made my day!
Glad you enjoyed it Laura.
Awesome! Thank you so much Ian for such a clear wonderful explanation 🙏🙏
TY 🙂 I am going to try this today.
sounds great. And good luck.
Thank you so much for this video. So much to learn.
Glad you found it helpful Marie.
(this is the HUBBY: Harry) I reflect Luna's (two statements down) "aha" moment. Thanks and I look forward to "dipping" my brush into it.
Awesome. Can't wait for next week.
Delighted you enjoyed it.
Thanks Ian. Lots of great advice there.
Thanks Andy
Beautiful painting!
This is beautiful ! I really appreciate you for sharing this valuable information with us. ☺️
This was fantastic, Ian. Thank you! Love the painting! g
Hi Gayle, so glad you liked it. Nice to hear from you. All the best.
Excellent video! Amazed that a chair and some boxes make such a pleasing composition.
Glad you liked it. I love that when nothing can pulled out of obscurity and makes a decent painting.
Thanks for doing this. Very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Very very very helpful.... Thanks for sharing this gem ✨
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
My pleasure!
Thanks for sharing that great concept! That really helps me a lot.
Glad it was helpful Johannes.
What a beautiful painting! Seeing it blocked out 2 dimensionally made so much sense as an abstract composition. Then you fooled our eyes again and made it into a pile of boxes. Brilliant! One of the best paintings in this series, in my opinion.
Thank you so much !
Beautifully done ! Thank you for the quality & great lesson !
Thank you, wonderful explanation.
Thanks Christine.
Wonderful video Ian!! Thank you.
Thanks Diana. NIce to hear from you. All the best
Merci, I needed that explanation.....Thanks for your tuesdays wonderful classes.
You are so welcome Brigitte.
Wow! I really love this lesson. Thank you for sharing.
You're very welcome Helle.
I love the results.
Thank you.
What an absolutely fantastic video!
Thanks Jon for letting me know you liked it.
I’ve only just discovered your channel and the tuition is fantastic.Your style of painting has a simplicity and elegance which I have been trying to emulate DIGITALLY.Recently I attempted my version of the back alley you painted a few weeks ago.. My verdict was was , wow , I really need to reign in my colours and to simplify my shapes. So this video couldn’t have been more timely. It will be a real challenge to apply this principal to the world of virtual painting. Thank you so much for generously sharing your skill and I look forward to the arrival of your book and to more of thes postings.
HI Patrick, glad you are enjoying the videos. And good luck with the digital painting. My wife Anne Ward paints on the ipad using ProCreate.
Yes I use Procreate too!
Just what I was looking for and I didn't even know it!
Thanks for all the knowledge!
You are welcome Josh.
Always inspiring and informative!
Glad you think so Veronica.
Thank you so much. This is very useful 💖💖💖🙏
You're welcome
Thanks for the lesson! The finished painting looks amazing
Glad you like it Ariel. THanks.
Loved this finished painting …. Such an interesting composition
Such a master at what you do. Thanx Ian.
You are so welcome Mary
I have been searching the whole YT since a year and now finally I found this channel that teaches in such a way
Thank you so much for putting all the effort in your excellent tutorials.
My pleasure Cathy. Glad you are enjoying them.
Fabulous and much appreciated!
I'm glad it was helpful.
so beautiful
Thanks so much
Love it
Thank you it was helpful 🙏🏾
So glad Usha.
Very helpful and great lessons here. Thank you so much
You're very welcome!
Really interesting thank you Ian
Very welcome Nicholas.
I tried muted colours today . Turned out great ! Thanks so much for the tips !
Thank you so much for taking time to make these videos!! I have watched a numer of them recently, - just discovered your work:) and find great value in these short and informative videos. Speaking of muted color, I have grown to love grays and now see them in everything. So wonderful! Many thanks again:)
Glad you are enjoying the videos Tami. All the best.
Beautiful, I love this series. Can’t wait till next week. Perspective is a struggle for me as well as what you’ve just went over. Thank you so much for sharing your time and knowledge.
You are most welcome Jay. Glad you are enjoying them.
This was great Ian! :)
Glad you liked it Vicky.
Thank you so much for your beautiful demonstration and very clear explanation.💐
Glad it was helpful Varda.
Amazing composition! I love the geometry that is happening
I liked that too and I suppose talk a bit about that this week when I analyze the perspective of the the image.
Interesting perspective in mixing. Very useful.
Glad you think so Judy. All the best.
I very much enjoy your clear and thorough explanations, the examples, and the way you demonstrate your concepts. Thank you for what you're doing!
You're very welcome!. Like the tag Luken U See!
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition 😉
Love this.
Thanks a lot.
WOW!!! I really find it amazing how you can take an image of something I'd never take a second look at and you make it into a very interesting painting! AND it is wonderful how you did this painting, I almost feel like...hmmm... maybe, just maybe, I might be able to try this (roughly speaking, of course)! Thank you -- nice video 😊
Loved the composition and the process - the clarity was immense. Thank you
You are so welcome Melanie
This is wonderful, I've never seen this way of looking at muted color!!!
Delighted you found it helpful Joan
Fantastic sir..! Truly amazing 💕💕
Thank you Mohan.
Very helpful. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful Laura.
Mind bogling for me. Hope to watch this again, too!
Delighted you enjoyed it Dee
Really great video! So helpful. Thank you for sharing ! Beautiful painting with shadow and light playing.
thanks Hannah. Glad you liked it.