Quick Tip 165 - Distant Blues
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2018
- A subscriber asks about how to make ocean scenes show depth in a painting. Painter/Art Teacher Dianne Mize explains how to go about seeing what needs to be done and how to achieve the proper hues and values.
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It still amazes me just how much brilliance a neutral achieves. Feels like a magical power to learn (a bit more) how to work with the power of neutrals. Thank you Diane!
My pleasure.
Your color mixing, from our view, looked just like the photo. Loved the lesson!
All I'm doing is observing and mixing according to what I see. What value is it? What hue is it? What intensity is it? Anybody can do that.
Yet again such a great tutorial! Thank you.
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Great showing! I learned so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for clarifying the blues
My pleasure.
I noticed that you got a better effect by mixing some chromatic blues first and then neutralizing them a bit - I tend to neutralize mine too much from the get-go and lose too much brightness - yours popped through just enough! Good example!
I've found that when mixing color, it always works best to go slow.
Thank you so much for your all tips!
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
You’ve got a cat, Dianne! 😸
I've got two- Lizzy and Charley.
Love it ! Great Lesson , Thank you so much !
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Once again your method has amazed me! I see colors sometimes, but am not sure what to mix together to achieve it. I am going to have to look on your website for more neutral color information.
In the long run, it's all about describing to yourself what you see rather than what it is.
I love learning how to mix the colors. Merci!
You bet!
Excellent!! Thank you!
You are welcome!
Very helpful. Thank you!
My pleasure.
Thank you.
Gracias
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
What a fun tip. I am new to oil painting and have trouble knowing when to mix warm and cool colors in a painting. Should one always use both and should it just be used when I mix the complements in warm and cool for neutrals? I realize I must paint what I see.... but I have had people make comments in my painting that they see cool and warm and I don't know if that is a complement or something I need to correct. LOL I just want you to know that I always see a wonderful difference in your tutorials from many I see on UA-cam or in classes. You are amazing.
Thanks, Marie. I get lots of questions about cool and warm. I've got on the schedule a Quick Tip coming up about that but there are several on the schedule so it will be either late August or early September before it comes out. Meanwhile, warms and cools accent one another. For example, in my squirrels in the snow painting you referred to in another comment, the lights on the snow are warm and shadows cool. That's the reason light sparkles. So just think of warm/cool as tools and try to observe in nature how they work. Stay tuned.
s`Thank you so much for your generous time. I revisited your video on warm and cool colors. I then went to your blog and ordered 4 DVD's on Color - mixing including temperature, hue etc. The link on your site took me to Amazon. I don't think the DVD's I ordered in the past from you show on my account - just the downloadable ones :). I also ordered a full video on "the River". I know - you say technique first but every now and then one needs a little fix LOL. Thanks again Dianne.
Thanks for all your lessons. But how will you approach that lesson and the lesson about blue sky in watercolour, please
I always say that watercolor painting is more akin to pottery making than to oil or acrylic painting. With watercolor, we use the same color theory as with oils and acrylics, but water is our white and wet in wet or wet on damp is our technique.
what do you mix to get phthao blue please
You really can't mix Phthalo blue. You can come close by adding ultramarine blue to either Rembrandt viridian or Phthalo green, but there are tube colors that cannot be mixed.
Hello Dianne, do you paint portraits ?
Yes, Guy. I paint whatever subject grabs my attention.
Thanks Dianne. Here in the Blue Ridge Mountains we are continually challenged by the effects of atmosphere on hues as well as values of distant ranges. This was very helpful! Do you mind telling me what you are cleaning your brush with and if you ever use a medium? Thank you! Deborah Squier
Deborah, for cleaning while working, I use Turpenoid turpentine substitute. For final cleaning at the end of a work session, I use Murphy's Oil Soap which is the best brush cleaner I've found yet (and I've tried many of them.) To answer your other question, I rarely used a medium. The only exceptions are if the painting is too stiff out of the tube, I mix into it a drop or two or refined linseed oil, and if I need the paint to dry fast, I add a bit of Liquin. I have tried Galkyd for faster drying, but don't like the gloss it leaves behind. I might add here that in the beginning, when I do the initial drawing/block-in with a wash, I use Gamsol. See my Quick Tip on mediums for more.
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Observe! What are the major shapes ? Within these what is in shadow? Within the shadow, what are the hues and what are the values? Within the areas not-in-shadow, what are the hues? What are the values? In both areas, how saturated is each hue?
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Plz show us how to paint rocks
Look for how the lights and shadows are placed on the rocks rather than just rocks, then paint the values of the lights and shadows in the shapes that you see them. See Quick Tip 106.
I never see you use cobalt blue. In Australia we have clear blue skies most of the time and although the horizon isn’t cobalt if you look straight up the sky is basically pure cobalt. Is there a reason why you avoid cobalt blue in sky mixes?
Pat, when I look at a clear blue sky, I see many color variations. You can isolate areas of the sky by curling your fingers around to your thumb and making little tunnels with both hands to look through. That allows you to see areas of the sky in isolation and you discover that it is not just one flat color, but it has depth (after all, it is deep space). Cobalt blue alone cannot do this. Sometimes it's a bit redder, sometimes a bit greener, etc.
Your camera person needs to zoom in more. Can’t see what is happening.
Are you watching from your phone? If so, try a larger screen.