Visual fatigue led to total elimination of the leaves, revealing a wonderful hedgerow existing only in my imagination. I am still working from the eighteen hue color wheel presented in Lesson Two. Painting is far more fun when I’m flexible enough to let a painting dictate where it wants to end up. To view the …
During the next two weeks, to give you time to complete your first two color wheels, I will post a variety of sample sketches based on Lesson One and Lesson Two. Early morning view from my front porch. To blind myself to the colors in front of me and paint only thinking of value continues …
Application of using color wheel created in Lesson One, only the primary and secondary colors in full saturation. Using only the six primary and secondary pigments I used to create the color wheel in Lesson One, I painted the clear, glass bottle. I ignored the real colors completely and attempted to paint value shapes instead. …
Once or twice a week I will post a lesson in Color as Value. I encourage you to take the time to create your own color charts. I believe you will learn as much from your less-than-perfect charts as you will the perfect charts. To be honest, I have made over a hundred different color …
Before I rant, I want to say that it was the book Blue and Yellow Don’t Make Green by Michael Wilcox that opened the door to my journey along the path of understanding color, both the science and the artist’s application of color. I am grateful and I highly recommend the book. However, this morning …
Complementary Colors and color value. As I work my way through the 100 sketches of trumpet parts that I have promised myself to complete I will post more detailed lessons in color value studies and examples of color value. When I play with complementary colors as I am in this sketch, purple / yellow and …