Thank you for a wonderful tutorial. I love the harmony you have in your paintings. This will help me get more harmony in my paintings. Thanks for all you do.
Dear Dianna, that was the very best and most important advice/instruction for me and I couldn’t say enough thanks to you. Last year I started a small color pencil drawing，but couldn’t finish it because the color harmony issues, now you opened a new door for me to explore a new world of possibilities. By the way, I have been watching your Quick Tip every day n appreciated every single one! Thank you so so much for your generosity, kindness, insights n wisdoms ...🌝🌹🍀💖
I recently found all your videos and can't wait for the kids to go to bed so I can binge watch your lessons lol. I think this is going to help a lot in my painting endeavors. Thank you :)
This is important to me as a (Photoshop) postprocessor. I was late to the party on realizing just how much getting colors right can improve a photo. I've got luminosity adjustments well in hand, but not color. Now what I need to do is exploit the tools Photoshop has to take advantage of the things you're describing. I always knew there was more to learn from artists, but I never got around to letting them teach me. This is where I diverge from the old ways! Thank you! Thumbs up! About to subscribe!
Thank you so much Diane, it is a very insightful and useful quicktip. I learned a new thing thanks to you. Being conscious of the potential of colors we choose on our pallet for a painting is very important. I will definitely test different scheme for a same subject. Many thanks and happy new year!
Wow Dianne this was so helpful. I’ve been making color wheels by selecting 3 primary colors/ variations to see what type of a color scheme would be created before beginning my paintings. This is similar. I’m want to create some Gamut ‘maps’- do they have to be geometric in shape & use one of the 12 chromatic schemes? I suppose a circular one misses the concept of gamut or color mapping. Just fascinating! I love color mapping to create a scheme or mood. It simplifies my color palette & makes me work on color mixing skills. Thank you for this wonderful quick tip!!
Gamut mapping is best done with either triangular or rectangular formations. It's real purpose is to give you color harmony, thus the feeder colors you use are those at the corners of the triangle or rectangle. "Feeder" is my term for colors we use to mix all other colors we use. James Gurney calls these "subjective primaries."
but how to apply color scheme into painting . for example if I have a mountaing scene with tree in forgroud , if I choice a red and yellow scheme within gamut , what color I should apply for trees
Think about it like this: When you choose colors using a color scheme, those colors become your chosen ingredients. You mix them for the hues, values and saturations to express the subject of your painting. A gamut is made of three or four colors according to where you place the points of a triangle or rectangle to determine the gamut. So if you chose from among the reds and yellows, using a triangle, you also need to choose from the third point of the triangle.
I just use the wheel for hue harmony. I think the saturation side of it isn’t exactly needed if you just paint with neutrals and add in saturated hits at the end. 70-30 neutral dominant in the color composition
I disagree. Controlling saturation is one of the tools that can make or break a painting. Sargent's work would have totally flopped without it, as would any of the master painters.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Ok so that triangle is also vital to a harmonic saturation relationship between the three hues? Thank you for that Dianne. You really know more then I do
Great explanation Dianne! Here's a question: the Gamut mapping discussed in James Gurney's book uses the "YURMBY" color wheel instead of the Chroma Wheel on your quick tip. Is there any advantage to using the Yurmby wheel in landscape compositions vs the traditional color wheel?
Thanks, Grant. My only objection to the YURMBY wheel Gurney invented is the position of the colors don't line up with exact complements being directly opposite each other. I also prefer the traditional naming of hues and definitions of "primary" and "secondary." I see no particular advantage in using the YURMBY wheel for landscape painting. I do see an advantage in mapping a gamut because of its ability to keep color harmony. Seems to me it makes more sense to learn how to work with the three parts of color - the hue, the value of the hue, and its saturation - according to how the hues are arranged on the traditional wheel.
I really want to learn more about color theory this year; since your lessons about color improved my work more than anything else, do you have any books you can recommend on the subject?
For sure! It’s on my 2021 goal list 😊 I just love books too mostly for reference, but these videos are probably more helpful than any of the books available
One of the most comprehensive books on color is James Gurney's COLOR AND LIGHT. He has a rich list of other books in his Reference section at the end of the book.
Dear Dianne, what a great video, thank you! You mention 12 schemes in your explanation and the ones you show somehow remind me of musical theory - I am not an expert in music either 🙂 but it makes me think of the 3rd, 5th etc... which describe the distance between notes I believes. Are these two concepts related? Where could I read more about these 12 schemes?
I see them as parallel, Loic. For years now, I've been paralleling how music works with how color (and principles in general) work. I discuss the 12 schemes in my book, Finding Freedom to Create. Here's the list: Monochromatic, Primary Triad, Secondary Triad, Tertiary Triad, Analogous Tertiary Set, Analogous Set, Complementary, Complementary Tertiary Set, Double Complementary, Split Complementary, Double split Complementary.
Dear Diane, first of all I thank you for the quick tips during 2020, it has brighted my days and helped a lot.I have today a quite stupid question, how to make the color value lowerm darker?I have understood that using the complementary lows the intensity of the color and that adding white rises the value.If we do not want though to use black to lower the value, is it than necessary to change the pigment or better change to another color to get a deeper value? Example:If I want a deeper red should I take alizarin and mix it into the red ? For the blues, is it French ultramarine the darkest one? Does it mean I could not go further in the blue darkness as Ultramarin ? And if I use than black into that could I consider this new value/color still as blue? Thank you and have a creativ and safe 2021!
Good question. For almost all the hues, we have available to us their darkest dark, so alizarin is a good one for darkening a brighter red and either ultramarine or thalo blue for darkening a lighter blue, etc. BUT there's something else to consider---hues get darker because they are not receiving many light rays which means they are going into shadow, so in addition to using the darker hue to darken a lighter hue, adding a bit of that hue's darker complement might be needed.
Sweet Granny can i request you for a landscape or autumn pic from ur heart? i'ld love to see that. I'm not good(mostly bad) with distance object so i cant express my vision through my art. thats why i do mainly potrait in normal level. If u see this plz one art for me :) thank you
Thank you, but our Quick Tips are too short to do a complete scene. Perhaps you would enjoy Yonah Mountain, a Study. For the first five minutes, the audio is terrible, but I'm doing a full study in plein air.
I've appreciated your quick tips so much what a gift to us.. thank you and Happy 2021 Year--looking forward to your teaching.
Happy new year to you, too, and thanks for watching.
You’re so smart and an excellent teacher. Could you do a class on the planes of the face, creating flesh tones, warm and cool shadows etc
That's too much for a Quick Tip, Rachel, but worth considering for a course or a workshop. Thanks for the idea.
You are a POWER HOUSE of information. Thank you.
Thanks. I've had a bit of time to collect it 🌝
Thank you for a wonderful tutorial. I love the harmony you have in your paintings. This will help me get more harmony in my paintings. Thanks for all you do.
You are so welcome, Marie. Working with the gamut concept is a lot of fun.
Thank you Dianne! That was my question 😉. Now it's clear to me!
Wonderful! Thanks for asking it.
Very clear! Thanks for sharing! Happy New Year!
Same to you!
Another use for this is in interior design. Makes choices a lot easier and it will harmonize in the end.
Thanks
Bingo
Dear, you’re really amazing and helpful
Thanks! It's a pleasure doing these.
Dear Dianna, that was the very best and most important advice/instruction for me and I couldn’t say enough thanks to you. Last year I started a small color pencil drawing，but couldn’t finish it because the color harmony issues, now you opened a new door for me to explore a new world of possibilities. By the way, I have been watching your Quick Tip every day n appreciated every single one! Thank you so so much for your generosity, kindness, insights n wisdoms ...🌝🌹🍀💖
Thanks for being a Studio Insider member, Sarah. It's a pleasure doing these.
I recently found all your videos and can't wait for the kids to go to bed so I can binge watch your lessons lol. I think this is going to help a lot in my painting endeavors. Thank you :)
Welcome!! And thanks.
You've explained this perfectly! Thank you
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
This is important to me as a (Photoshop) postprocessor. I was late to the party on realizing just how much getting colors right can improve a photo. I've got luminosity adjustments well in hand, but not color. Now what I need to do is exploit the tools Photoshop has to take advantage of the things you're describing.
I always knew there was more to learn from artists, but I never got around to letting them teach me. This is where I diverge from the old ways!
Thank you! Thumbs up! About to subscribe!
Enjoy the journey!
My confused haze has been swept away. Thank you.
Wonderful!
So grateful for your wonderful teaching of your amazing knowledge! Happy New Year from Australia & Stay Safe and well Dianne...
Same to you!
Great info, as always. Thanks, Dianne!
You bet!
Oh, this was so helpful! Thank you for explaining it so clearly!
You're so welcome!
Thank you so much Diane, it is a very insightful and useful quicktip. I learned a new thing thanks to you. Being conscious of the potential of colors we choose on our pallet for a painting is very important. I will definitely test different scheme for a same subject. Many thanks and happy new year!
Glad it was helpful! And Happy New Year to you, too.
Thanks, dear Dianne. That was a great lesson. Happy New Year.
You are so welcome! And Happy Year Year to you, too.
Thanks, Dianne, for a great lesson. Happy New Year.
You are so welcome! Happy New Year to you, too.
Wow Dianne this was so helpful. I’ve been making color wheels by selecting 3 primary colors/ variations to see what type of a color scheme would be created before beginning my paintings. This is similar. I’m want to create some Gamut ‘maps’- do they have to be geometric in shape & use one of the 12 chromatic schemes? I suppose a circular one misses the concept of gamut or color mapping. Just fascinating! I love color mapping to create a scheme or mood. It simplifies my color palette & makes me work on color mixing skills. Thank you for this wonderful quick tip!!
Gamut mapping is best done with either triangular or rectangular formations. It's real purpose is to give you color harmony, thus the feeder colors you use are those at the corners of the triangle or rectangle. "Feeder" is my term for colors we use to mix all other colors we use. James Gurney calls these "subjective primaries."
Thanks Dianne, Happy New Year
Happy new year! Thanks for becoming a Studio Insiders member.
Really great explanation! Thank you. You've got a new subscriber here! :)
Thanks. Welcome aboard!
Thanks and Happy new year.
Happy new year! And thanks for joining Studio Insiders.
Lovely :) Thanks for amazing info!!
Our pleasure!
Thanks. I think I'll try the one scene using different gamuts.
me too, and it helps so much in Printmaking too.
If you can make the time to do this, real learning cn take place.
It's a wonderful way to understand how color works, and is pretty much a guarantee for color harmony.
great info! thank you! Happy 2021!
Happy new year!
Excellent. Happy New Year.
Happy new year!
Parabéns mestra obrigada. Feliz Ano Novo 🎉🎇
Thanks, and Happy New Year to you, too.
Happy new year Dianne!
Happy new year!!
Thankyou for explaining this in a way I can understand. ToT
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
but how to apply color scheme into painting . for example if I have a mountaing scene with tree in forgroud , if I choice a red and yellow scheme within gamut , what color I should apply for trees
Think about it like this: When you choose colors using a color scheme, those colors become your chosen ingredients. You mix them for the hues, values and saturations to express the subject of your painting. A gamut is made of three or four colors according to where you place the points of a triangle or rectangle to determine the gamut. So if you chose from among the reds and yellows, using a triangle, you also need to choose from the third point of the triangle.
Wow it clicked when you used the small. Bless you.
When you used smaller triangle. I understood how to mix colors but never thought about a smaller triangle.
You can use a triangle of any size.
I just use the wheel for hue harmony. I think the saturation side of it isn’t exactly needed if you just paint with neutrals and add in saturated hits at the end. 70-30 neutral dominant in the color composition
I disagree. Controlling saturation is one of the tools that can make or break a painting. Sargent's work would have totally flopped without it, as would any of the master painters.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Ok so that triangle is also vital to a harmonic saturation relationship between the three hues? Thank you for that Dianne. You really know more then I do
Which one of your paid courses goes over this?
Great explanation Dianne! Here's a question: the Gamut mapping discussed in James Gurney's book uses the "YURMBY" color wheel instead of the Chroma Wheel on your quick tip. Is there any advantage to using the Yurmby wheel in landscape compositions vs the traditional color wheel?
Thanks, Grant.
My only objection to the YURMBY wheel Gurney invented is the position of the colors don't line up with exact complements being directly opposite each other. I also prefer the traditional naming of hues and definitions of "primary" and "secondary."
I see no particular advantage in using the YURMBY wheel for landscape painting. I do see an advantage in mapping a gamut because of its ability to keep color harmony.
Seems to me it makes more sense to learn how to work with the three parts of color - the hue, the value of the hue, and its saturation - according to how the hues are arranged on the traditional wheel.
I really want to learn more about color theory this year; since your lessons about color improved my work more than anything else, do you have any books you can recommend on the subject?
I think watching all these Quick Tips will be an amazing trip through theory of Colors and Painting.
For sure! It’s on my 2021 goal list 😊 I just love books too mostly for reference, but these videos are probably more helpful than any of the books available
My favorite book is: Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green by Michael Wilcox. It's easy to read, to understand and it makes sense.
Thank you Allie, I will look it up 😃👌
One of the most comprehensive books on color is James Gurney's COLOR AND LIGHT. He has a rich list of other books in his Reference section at the end of the book.
Dear Dianne, what a great video, thank you! You mention 12 schemes in your explanation and the ones you show somehow remind me of musical theory - I am not an expert in music either 🙂 but it makes me think of the 3rd, 5th etc... which describe the distance between notes I believes. Are these two concepts related? Where could I read more about these 12 schemes?
I see them as parallel, Loic. For years now, I've been paralleling how music works with how color (and principles in general) work.
I discuss the 12 schemes in my book, Finding Freedom to Create. Here's the list: Monochromatic, Primary Triad, Secondary Triad, Tertiary Triad, Analogous Tertiary Set, Analogous Set, Complementary, Complementary Tertiary Set, Double Complementary, Split Complementary, Double split Complementary.
Thank you very much Dianne!
Dear Diane, first of all I thank you for the quick tips during 2020, it has brighted my days and helped a lot.I have today a quite stupid question, how to make the color value lowerm darker?I have understood that using the complementary lows the intensity of the color and that adding white rises the value.If we do not want though to use black to lower the value, is it than necessary to change the pigment or better change to another color to get a deeper value? Example:If I want a deeper red should I take alizarin and mix it into the red ? For the blues, is it French ultramarine the darkest one? Does it mean I could not go further in the blue darkness as Ultramarin ? And if I use than black into that could I consider this new value/color still as blue? Thank you and have a creativ and safe 2021!
Good question. For almost all the hues, we have available to us their darkest dark, so alizarin is a good one for darkening a brighter red and either ultramarine or thalo blue for darkening a lighter blue, etc. BUT there's something else to consider---hues get darker because they are not receiving many light rays which means they are going into shadow, so in addition to using the darker hue to darken a lighter hue, adding a bit of that hue's darker complement might be needed.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction thank you very much,I was not considering the shadow, so important.
Sweet Granny can i request you for a landscape or autumn pic from ur heart? i'ld love to see that. I'm not good(mostly bad) with distance object so i cant express my vision through my art. thats why i do mainly potrait in normal level. If u see this plz one art for me :) thank you
Thank you, but our Quick Tips are too short to do a complete scene. Perhaps you would enjoy Yonah Mountain, a Study. For the first five minutes, the audio is terrible, but I'm doing a full study in plein air.