Exploring Interpretive Color to Transform Your Paintings
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- Опубліковано 6 лис 2023
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The colors on my palette:
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Lemon
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Red Light
Alizarin Permanent
Quinacridone Magenta
Dioxazine Purple
Ultramarine Blue
Cobalt Blue
Chrome Oxide Green
Phthalo Green
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If you try doing a painting in the next days or weeks, let me know how it goes and any thoughts or insights you had on the process. Good luck!
Thank you Iain, your videos are always so interesting. Looking forward to the next one. Stay safe and thanks again.
thank you Cindy. I am glad you liked this one.@@cindymcchlery-hendy1968
Good to know. I follow you so I will stay tuned! Take care. g
Thank you, Ian! Of all art teachers on UA-cam, I always find your advice to be the most practical and presented in easy-to-understand, not intimidating, way. I am sure many of us feel inspired to go and try what you just showed in your video.
Thanks so much and I hope it inspires a few people to give it a try. Best wishes.
Very helpful and a real eye opener for me. Thank you.
you're very welcome! @@sabinamurphy4101
I struggle so with values….enjoyed this video, very helpful . I’m learning!
Makes me happy to hear. Thank you for watching and glad you enjoyed it.@@artistapprentice7021
This is possibly my biggest struggle in elevating my art from basic to artistic, thank you
I hope it inspires you to try it. Good luck with it and all the best.
You have a natural affinity for teaching in a way that easily breaks down the most pertinent information in an understandable & organized way. Very good information. Thank you!
You're very welcome. Thank you for the kind comment Marie, and best wishes.
Ian, this is remarkable. Your passionate efforts to illustrate your insights through practicable examples really sets you apart as a teacher. It is rare to see such passion in a "free" video like this. The "value" you provide is phenomenal
Thanks so much and thank you for letting me know. All the best.
I see what you did there! LOL "value" LOL
Perfect. This is exactly the direction I've wanted to go with landscapes and wasn't entirely sure how to get there. Using the color wheel to determine the palette makes perfect sense.
Wonderful Carol. I am very glad to hear that.
I’ve watched every one of your videos and have learned so much from you, but this one stands out as especially mind opening. Thank you so much Ian!
Delighted you enjoyed it Amy. Thanks for letting me know. All the best.
You have answered my questions on tone and hue that art teachers have not been able to answer for me. They just gave me a puzzled look as though I were talking incoherently. Thank you so much for not only answering but beautifully demonstrating.
Ian, I have to admit that I'm not a painter but i had to give you a compliment. You have the perfect voice for an instructor. Your tone seems to guide the listener to what you are teaching. I wish you continued success!
I watched this video five times today. I cannot get enough. It is really a gift.❤
Wow, makes me happy to hear it. Best wishes.
This knowledge of intensity of hue is what the expressionist movement did with their colour palette 🧚
They layered various hues of colours in the same intensity which enlivened the artwork Thanks for your generosity and kindness Ian 🥰
Thank you so much Heather. All the very best.
Thanks Ian. It is indeed a worthwhile exercise to break away from what we see as 'normal'. I learned a lot following your thought process and suggestions. Barry
It would be fun to see all those paintings framed and hung together. Or…I could do my own small series. Thanks for the lesson and the inspiration.
I took screen shots of each to compare. It’s helpful!
It is worth a try, doing a series of the same image and shifting the hue. As an experiment. The secret though is a really sound foundation image of good structure of value masses. Then you can push off of that in various ways and the structure will help hold it all together.
You are as a talented teacher as you are an artist. An artist's artist. Thank you for sharing.
I like that, an artist's artist. Thank you.
Great video and demonstration, Ian! So important. As a curious art student(now and forever) in the 70s, I’ll never forget the time I visited my neighbor who was art director/editor for the Saturday Evening Post and Look magazines. He had an original Norman Rockwell hanging on his wall. And he pointed out to me Rockwell’s use of color on shadow area of the face. It was a bold deep reddish purple. My neighbor told me that because the VALUE was correct, the color worked! And of course, relative to other colors in the portrait.
Same as you demonstrated here. Wonderful!
Thank you for breaking down something I never clarified to the degree that you do when choosing what landscapes to paint. Value is the anchor, make sure there first is a clear pattern of darks and lights. Then, if I don't want to go with the typical blue and green which is most landscapes, try shifting the relationship around to another side of the color wheel, but keep the same intensity. I will be using this suggestion in my landscapes. So helpful!
Glad you found it helpful Stephen. It is true, if you have a solid foundation ( the main value masses) then there is a lot of room for expression. Like a musician improvising off of a standard.
This is such wonderful teaching
Referencing the color wheel with all the changes and modulations in colors and values , that was a first for me. Thank you so much Ian!! You’re an amazing teacher 😊
All three on screen during the closing segment would have been great.. But I've always preferred using attractive colours over the dullness that can be absolute realism, so thank you for the demonstration on how to control it without being too lurid.
Thank you. I will keep that in mind. I am glad you liked this video for more exciting color. Best wishes.
Very inspiring and exciting, while teaching us how to avoid brashness. Thank you so much for this helpful lesson🖼️
You are so welcome. Very glad you liked it. All the best. @@craftdipper
Thank you so much for these ideas! I haven’t been painting because of recovering from a long time of major surgeries and medical problems. I want to paint and this has inspired me completely.
Makes me happy to hear it. I wish you a fully recovery and many years of engaging painting. Best wishes.
Wow Ian! This completely opened my mind to such endless possibilities! I tend to be a slave to trying to match the colors in a scene - to think about those in terms of value rather than hue is really helpful … thank you!
Thinking outside the box opens up a whole new way of looking at a scene. You have explained it quite easily and what happens in the end is a variety of expressions of mood. I especially liked the last one.
Thank you Debra. I am delighted you enjoyed the video, and especially the last painting.
That was my favorite too.
Thanks for this tutorial. I have started watching your videos regularly and have been trying the exercises. I am a figurative painter and want to explore more landscape painting and your videos and books ( currently studying mastering compositions)definetly help a lot.
You send out such a sense of beautiful serenity! Thank you for your videos, I love watching them. Looking forward to try these experiments.
A good lesson with great examples. It's so easy to just not think about this possibility, but it opens up so many options. I'm a fan of muted colors, and this allows me to depart from the usual green. Thanks!
That is the thing whether more intense or muted you can shift the hue like this. And then as you say it really opens up a lot of options.
This is your best lesson to date more on this subject. Because color is what sells. It's what sells me on what I want to paint. Let alone what 1 wants to buy.😊 Ann, Florida fan
Hi Anne, delighted you liked the video. Color does get all the attention. But for me the underlying compositional structure of value is what really sells the painting but it's the color that gets the credit. With best wishes.
Thank you so much, your videos are so restful, easy to follow (especially as im not a native speaker), i could watch and listen to you for hours - which in fact I've been doing lately!😊
Hi Dominique, I'm delighted you are enjoying the videos. My very best wishes.
Watched this for the second time. I always gain so much from your videos 😊
Mind blowing, yet perfectly natural! I love this type of exercise to break us out of the comfort (or not so comfortable) zone.
Delighted you like it. I hope you have fun with exploring it yourself Mark. Best wishes.
This video helps me a lot in my artwork. I use
this from now in my portrait painting. It is long time I am looking for a color system you are explaining here. Thank you. This kind of using colors I can never forget. This gives so much freedom in artwork. Great. ❤❤❤❤❤
I do think this could work really well with portraits as well. Good luck with it. All the best.
New sign for my studio " my reference picture is not the boss. I am!!"
Yes exactly. Less subject, more artist!
This is a tremendous lesson. Thank you so much. I really wanted to see all three examples together. Here is my best effort: @5:00 @8:30 @11:20
Thanks Ian. Great suggestions, to liberate painting into creative mode instead of being caged in a preconceived formula. 👏🙏
Glad you liked it. It is so easy to start letting the subject dictate everything. Best wishes.
Utterly brilliant! Thank you. A simple but powerful analysis that delivers successful visual freedom on a plate. Masterful.
Thanks so much.
great video, very informative, straight and to the point, thank you ian
Just excellent advice. I think my favorite comment you made was "the photograph is not the boss, you're the boss." Good point to always keep in mind!
Well that's what happens, doesn't it? It starts to exert this weird control. When hey..... wait a minute.
It was so helpful to see these "shift" examples unfold. Thank you so much! I've always wanted to try this but haven't had any confidence. Your demonstrations and explanations have inspired me to give it a try!
YES! makes me happy to hear it. Have fun.
Ok, this has to be the most enlightening, consciousness raising video Ive seen in a long while Ian. I knew some of it on an instinctive level. It was the components of colour that was especially useful. Exactly what I needed. Thankyou....I will be definitely trying it.
So glad you found it that helpful Mark. Best wishes.
Thank you, Ian, for so beautifully demonstrating your point by example. Great teaching.
You're so welcome Martha. All the very best.
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH for this video, Ian! It's VERY INTERESTING & INSPIRING!
Delighted you think so. All the very best.
What a great painting experiment. Can't wait to try it. Thanks so much. 😊
I hope your paint brushes are light and free. Enjoy the process and best wishes.
Love it! This exercise in the course freaked me out last year. This year I did this very image in blue, purple, pink and yellow, and had a blast!
Hi Anne, so glad you enjoyed it this time. Great to hear. Hope you are well. With best wishes.
Great way to expand possibilities of using color.
Delighted you like the video.
I tried it out in watercolor. Did the first two and then went out on my own with the same composition and did a pink and teal. It was fun to bust out of conventions and do color schemes I’ve never tried. I will have to try on other compositions now and loosen up. I feel like I could drop in some similar value colors into these dark colors for intriguing effects. Thanks Ian for your wisdom!
I'm delighted you so quickly just took the idea and ran with it Olivia. Makes me happy. All the best.
Thanks Ian, I so appreciate your videos. I work non-representationally, but everything you have said is still relevant. Perfect timing (for me).
Hi James, quite right the whole issue of hue, value and intensity and affecting everything representational or not. Best wishes.
This is fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
Another thoughtful, well organized and helpful video. I appreciate your comment how too much intensity ends up being jumpy and distracting. Yup. Done that before!
Glad it was helpful Joan. You are not alone on that. Best wishes.
So interesting and helpful! I can see where I've gone wrong when I've tried to be more creative with my colour. Thank you so much for your lessons. I learn heaps! Greetings from Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia 🎨🤗
Hi Dianne, hope you find the ideas helpful. Good luck and best wishes.
Excellent demonstration, applying tonal values is what I suffer the most with when I paint. Thanks for explaining it so well.
you're very welcome. Delighted you found it helpful
That's crazy, I've been experimenting with this 3 days before your video came out. What a crazy coincidence. You articulate the ideas very well, great video.
Love it when the timing works out. Glad you watched it. Best wishes.
Thank you so much for opening new page for me!
Glad to see you again. Thanks for the video!
Where was this video when I was in art classes? No teacher ever broke any of this down so simply. Value? We did the exercise of making10 or 12 boxes of adding white and black to a color, but it was NEVER explained how to use it - value mass in a painting. This makes it so clear and simple. Thank you!!!!!
I truly appreciate how you take such a huge topic and can break it down into bites--sort of like the way you paint. Extremely helpful. thanks.
I wish I had known a week ago I could have joined. Missed it last year and wasn’t sure you’d do it again.
As always Ian you have delivered yet another wonderful and highly informative video. Some artists could take this concept and go their whole careers perfecting it and playing with it. Thank you again, always a great Tuesday when your video drops.
You're so welcome. I am glad you enjoyed it.
Thank-you for this demo. I've been debating on how to interpret an old sketch into a pastel painting, and whether to keep it a more traditional gray day, or make it more colourful and sunny. Have been trying things out on the ipad first, and loving some colours on the trees. Your demo will help me put my painting thoughts down more cohesively! :)
Commenting a couple days late but this video came out the day I really needed it. I'm doing a low-residency grad program and my mentor set me to the task of working up 3-5 studies for two upcoming paintings I'd worked out in pencil, paying particular attention to the idea of tonality. I honestly felt lost at how to tackle this (for some reason that term is incredibly slippery in my head and I think my mentor is amused seeing me try to nail it down, haha) but this video gave me a path in. Thanks again!
That is pretty funny. Glad to have offered a possibility for exploring the idea. Good luck with it! All the best.
Thanks Ian, for this exciting, inspiring video
Brilliant, Ian. You are such a strong teacher. Practicing what you teach elevates my practice. Thank you.
Thank you so much. Delighted you like it. Best wishes.
Thankyou, that was brilliant.
I wouldn't have thought they would work but they definitely did...an excellent demonstration, thank you!
Thanks for sticking it out until the end to see how it turned out. Glad you liked it in the end.
Excellent idea. Can’t wait to try it.
You said it in more than one sentence! Give yourself permission! I definitely want to try this exercise because it’s like patting your head and rubbing your tummy!😅Thank you for the inspiration!
Good luck with it. Candice.
Ian, in your debt a always. A fascinating video, I found it truly interesting and informative. Thank you.
Thanks so much Stephen. Good to hear from you. All the best.
I love this. Exactly what i needed. Thank you!
Yes! I love this. Its exactly how I've been feeling and I appreciate this lesson so much.
So glad Judy. Thank you for watching
extraordinary experimenting, with this lesson I discovered how Richard Mayhew created his magnificent masterpieces, thank you Ian✌✌✌
Glad you liked it. I'll have to look him up. All the best.
A game changer for me! Many thanks.
this is brilliant!! So exciting!
Thank you
Thank you for this wonderful lesson in creating art. You simplified the process with really good examples with the same picture . You are a really good teacher, can’t thank you enough. Your understanding of colors mixing is exceptional.
This was so informative and enlightening Ian! Thank you so much for opening another pathway to this new freedom of expression!
Glad you enjoyed it! Have fun with it and all the best.
Merci Mr Roberts. Toujours beaucoup de conseils dans vos vidéos. On voit toujours l'essentiel à appliquer dans une peinture et à revenir à la simplicité. Cordialement
Merci Eric. Je suis heureux que vous avez trouvé utile.
I love this lesson so much and hope I can make myself try this experiment. Thank you.
Wow, love this! Great post, thank you!
thanks so much.
Very interesting and an eye opener. Many thanks Ian.
This is terrific! The change of hue changes the entire mood or atmosphere and yet the unity is preserved so it still works! Thank you for sharing your knowledge, experience and insights with all of us.
you're so welcome. All the very best.
Just so illuminating!
thanks so much Sandra.
Thank you so much, I will surely try this on my next painting, it gets me going! ❤
I love this one. It was such a surprise to me I'm happy not to be stuck with the same old scene! Good to know.
Absolutely. It is a fun way to explore and play around with landscapes. Good luck and best wishes.
Loved, loved this. Great tips thanks Ian.
Glad you enjoyed it, and thank you
awesome Ian....
Very excited! Can’t wait to try it! Thanks for the great lesson Ian!
Have fun with it. You're so welcome.
Thank you Ian!!
My pleasure.
You are AOMH..BNQ! (Almost over my head...but not quite!) ThankYOU!
Excellent explanation of the concepts of hue and value. One of the best videos I’ve seen on the topic.
Thank you Paula. That is kind of you to say.
Thank you Ian, what a fantastic demo!
Glad you think so. All the best.
Mindblown.
Oh my goodness…a lot to take in. So much I don’t know. I’ll watch it again and see if I can push myself to stop copying photos!
Thanks so much for your monthly gift.
So happy you found it helpful. Best wishes.
Thank you Ian ! I allways learn a lot with you .
Glad to hear that. Best wishes Paula.
Thank you for your inspiring presentation. It is so valuable for my efforts to be more creative in painting.
Thank you for putting it together so clearly!
My pleasure Mike. Best wishes.
Gorgeous colors!
thanks so much.
Fantastic!
That was fun Ian. Always makes me want to get out the easel and paints.
Well Greg, you could. Best wishes.
Hi Ian, excellent demonstration, and it has immediately given me an idea that I want to try. I will definitely give you some feedback. All the best👏👍😃
thank you for the great demos!
you're so welcome. Thanks for watching
Thanks for helping us see VALUE ... it is so very important! It helps us see it ! WOOHOO. WOOPIE ! 🤗
Thank you. Glad you liked the video.
I loved the third result. Changing the hue creates such a magical atmosphere that was les obvious in the original photo or in the more straightforward first painting.
Hi Jeffrey, I thought the third one turned out the most interesting as well.
This was a fabulous tutorial….I work in watercolour, and look forward to trying out this approach. Thank you for your time and thoughtfulness in sharing this info!
Absolutely. You can have fun with this lesson in watercolor. Enjoy it and best wishes.
OMGosh! What has God wrought I will watch over and over again. Thanks
Wonderful. I hope you enjoy it each time.
Delighted you found that helpful. All the best.