Colours and music, in fact, seem to rule my life, making me also a bit of a colourful character. However, colour features strongly in painting to reflect the mood you are trying to create. The heat within, or even the cold. It certainly makes a difference to your interpretation.
Colour affects us all, in any number of ways and we probably all favour certain colours, which please our senses. Sometimes too, accordingly, you can create the illusion of a feeling of space.
Even our homes are pretty colourful now. As an example, if you want a restful, cool area, what colours should you choose? Personally, my choices would probably be a mint green, pale blue or lilac.
If you want the painting to jump out at you, as it were, well, you need to choose vibrant colours which will intensify your work. Not only will they stir up emotions inside you, but create the feeling of warmth, strong heat in fact. So, to let your emotions go wild, I would use very bright yellows, shades of orange, glorious reds and probably a touch of gold.
Vlaminck's artwork was fantastic. We all have mood swings and sayings to reflect this. Yes, we have all been feeling blue at some stage, and yes, we have all heard these well known words. Your art can also benefit from complementary colours. Here the colours change simply by what colour you place next to them.
If you like a colour, buy a tube and see if it lives up to your expectations. It is good to have white close to hand as you can build your shades up from this, or just use it for mixing. Bear in mind, some colours are permanent. As for shadows, whites, greys and various shades of brown could be used. You could say that black itself really blocks out colour.
Now if you are doing watercolours, Paynes grey is a very good choice. You could mix it yourself on your palette. The mixture consisting of Ultramarine Blue, Yellow Ochre and Mars Black. However, you can buy this ready mixed and because of its versatility, it is very popular with artists today.
At the end of the day, colour is very important to the artist. Well, after all, this is how we artists choose to express ourselves.
Colours can be mixed in so many ways. To do this, you need to have a full understanding of the Primary Colours and The Colour Wheel. You can actually buy colour wheels in art shops and suppliers. I can only say that this would be a good investment.
I have touched on mood swings related to colour in my article, so now I intend to elaborate on this more fully. Certain colours can, for instance, bring a representation of say, for example, misery, doom and gloom. Now for me to achieve this, I personally would use probably a mixture of black, greys, both dark or light, definitely browns, or a very dark blue or maroon shade.
This is just my feeling on the subject. Fortunately this is not always applicable with these colours, it is down to what context they are used. Actually used on their own, any one of these named colours would make an interesting work, if put with white. - 16887
Colour affects us all, in any number of ways and we probably all favour certain colours, which please our senses. Sometimes too, accordingly, you can create the illusion of a feeling of space.
Even our homes are pretty colourful now. As an example, if you want a restful, cool area, what colours should you choose? Personally, my choices would probably be a mint green, pale blue or lilac.
If you want the painting to jump out at you, as it were, well, you need to choose vibrant colours which will intensify your work. Not only will they stir up emotions inside you, but create the feeling of warmth, strong heat in fact. So, to let your emotions go wild, I would use very bright yellows, shades of orange, glorious reds and probably a touch of gold.
Vlaminck's artwork was fantastic. We all have mood swings and sayings to reflect this. Yes, we have all been feeling blue at some stage, and yes, we have all heard these well known words. Your art can also benefit from complementary colours. Here the colours change simply by what colour you place next to them.
If you like a colour, buy a tube and see if it lives up to your expectations. It is good to have white close to hand as you can build your shades up from this, or just use it for mixing. Bear in mind, some colours are permanent. As for shadows, whites, greys and various shades of brown could be used. You could say that black itself really blocks out colour.
Now if you are doing watercolours, Paynes grey is a very good choice. You could mix it yourself on your palette. The mixture consisting of Ultramarine Blue, Yellow Ochre and Mars Black. However, you can buy this ready mixed and because of its versatility, it is very popular with artists today.
At the end of the day, colour is very important to the artist. Well, after all, this is how we artists choose to express ourselves.
Colours can be mixed in so many ways. To do this, you need to have a full understanding of the Primary Colours and The Colour Wheel. You can actually buy colour wheels in art shops and suppliers. I can only say that this would be a good investment.
I have touched on mood swings related to colour in my article, so now I intend to elaborate on this more fully. Certain colours can, for instance, bring a representation of say, for example, misery, doom and gloom. Now for me to achieve this, I personally would use probably a mixture of black, greys, both dark or light, definitely browns, or a very dark blue or maroon shade.
This is just my feeling on the subject. Fortunately this is not always applicable with these colours, it is down to what context they are used. Actually used on their own, any one of these named colours would make an interesting work, if put with white. - 16887
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