When I’m doing paintings, when I get to the highlights, especially if it’s a warm object that needs a highlight, the whiter it goes, the intensity doesn’t seem to be quite as bright. So I will usually tickle it with a little bit of green and blue, or a touch of magenta and blue, inContinue reading “Tickle your whites, and avoid 100% black”
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Copy of James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s Nocturne in Blue and Silver 1872–78
This is a copy of another painting I found in Mystical Landscapes: From Vincent Van Gogh to Emily Carr. I’m not quite sure why this one is called Nocturne in Blue and Silver. Unlike many of Whistler’s other nocturnes, I couldn’t see any blue in this one.
Copy of Ferdinand Hodler’s Lake Geneva with Mont Blanc in the morning light
I was inspired by Katie Turner’s post on studying the masters to do another copy. I found this painting in the book Mystical Landscapes: From Vincent van Gogh to Emily Carr. Looking at the reproduction on WikiArt, there’s a much greater shift from cool to warm in the colour (from right to left) compared toContinue reading “Copy of Ferdinand Hodler’s Lake Geneva with Mont Blanc in the morning light”
Colours are slippery suckers
A colour is only a colour based on what’s surrounding it. Mitch Baird on The Artful Painter
What if a colour wrote a poem?
Van Gogh’s Yellow
