September Color Workshop: Exploring the three-color palettes led to several important clarifications and a major change in the curriculum for the future color workshops: After creating the color charts for each of the three color palettes it became clear that the warm palette was lacking in the variety of purples produced and the cool palette …
I don’t ask my students to take the time to create new color wheels if I don’t do it myself. This afternoon I made sample color wheels in both watercolor and oil, both from a limited palette of only three colors. For the watercolor wheel I used Winsor Newton Artists’ Water Colors: New Gamboge, Quinacridone …
Exploring the various aspects of Color Theory, though fascinating to some, is simply a mental exercise that will not improve your painting unless it is put into practice. At first it takes a conscious (and for me, rather painful) effort to break old habits and to go back to a new beginning. Two …
As I find time I will post comments and reviews about the books I have listed on the “Book Pages”. I welcome all comments and additional suggestions and reviews of books you have found useful, inspiring and informative. I also welcome suggestions and reviews of equipment, tools, paints, brushes, etc. Soon there will be pages …
A summary of the August 2009 Color: Light & Pigments / Glazing workshop taught by Chris Carter. The additive mixing of light and the subtractive mixing of pigments is simplified so that the artist can more easily mix the desired colors to achieve brilliance and excitement in a painting, especially a plein air painting.