Marker + Pencil: Gray is a Rainbow
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Do you automatically use gray markers or colored pencils to color gray objects? Gray art supplies are holding you back, preventing you from coloring with realism and artistry.
If you've been using the same gray blending combinations for years and your coloring never seems to improve to the point where it looks artistic-- your extremely literal use of color is part of the problem.
Note: This video is not a step by step tutorial. This is not a coloring lesson. Instead, we're sharing the thought process that goes into advanced artistic coloring. The coloring supplies you already own have enormous potential when you stop obsessing over blends and color. You can do this!
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Wowwww!!!! This is so beautiful and just opened up my coloring world 😍 Thank you for sharing your process!
You are so welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the feedback!
Thank you this is helpful. I am having soo much trouble with color values like this. My brain is just rejecting it for the time being. But this helps a lot.
It's a definite challenge to see interesting colors when we've been programmed to think "silver is gray", "grass is green", and "apples are red". We all struggle with it, so welcome to the artist club!
Amazing!!!!
Thanks Cheri!! I really appreciate you and all the support you give. I always picture you in real life as a whirlwind kind of person, brimming with positive energy.
Super video! Thank you!❤
Glad you liked it and thanks for letting me know. Feedback helps me figure out what to do more of. Was it the silver technique, the color theory, or just the use of markers and pencils that you liked?
This is a great video, as with all of yours! Forgive me for not understanding comments left about grayscale when your title was specifically calling gray a rainbow. You also talked about reflections on the silverware that is vintage. I have some of my grandmother’s silverware. It’s not polished and every time I look at it I think I should do so. But it has a patina that is so much more pleasing than polished silver. Now, after watching this, I think I need to take my camera out and photograph it…
You should absolutely photograph your grandmother's silverware!!! During the original livestream I did for this project back in November, that was something we all talked about-- memories of polishing silverware and being disappointed with the finished polished look. Maybe it's an artist thing? With the tarnish intact, you can see more details. I inherited a berry spoon from my grandmother, the bowl of the spoon is covered with berry and leaf shapes. It's absolutely gorgeous when tarnished but after polishing it's hard to appreciate the intricacy and craftsmanship. Someday, I want to paint that berry spoon on a 3-4 foot tall canvas and it'll definitely be tarnished when I do it!
Amy, this was so cool to watch, I have always wanted some idea on how to color silverware! Thank you so much for sharing!🥰
You are so welcome!
Love it. Another great lesson on coloring and shading. Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year!
Thanks Trudie and happy new year to you too!
Great instructional video as always! However, I feel the title is very misleading, as your are discussing and showing how to color "silver" objects which do reflect colors. In a pure gray scale coloring/painting you would not see any rainbow colors... as it would be only using different values of grays.
Interesting... but grayscale is not a realistic condition. Grayscale doesn't occur in nature; it's artificially created by artists who are focused on values and deliberately limiting the conditions of the artwork. I'd use this same rainbow method when coloring realistic koala bears, elephants, stone walkways, sharks, dolphins, lumps of coal, and especially storm clouds. Gray always has color to it-- some of that color is part of the gray (warm or cool undertones) and some of that color is bouncing off colorful objects around it.
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wish we could have seen the photo you were looking at. i have no way to know what you were copying. i, personally, do not see what you see when i look at silverware.
Thanks for asking about the photo ref. Because it takes time and conversation to teach someone to read a photo ref, that content is available in my workshops and courses. There's just no way I can afford to teach that kind of intensive stuff here on a free channel earning half-pennies per view. Sorry, just being honest about the economics of teaching art. The Tarnished Silver learning package is available here vanilla-workshops.com/p/tarnished-silver and it includes multiple photo references along with almost 4 hours of video, teaching people to see the color in gray.
But to answer your statement about not seeing the same colors I see-- part of the problem is that you're an intelligent adult. Chances are, you saw the colors as a child but as we mature, our brains start to specialize. The reason you can function in your chosen career and the reason you're a functional, self sufficient, mature adult is because you have trained your brain to ignore things which are not vital to your daily life. There's no way you could be a good parent or a successful accountant if you spent hours staring in awe at the amazing colors of oatmeal. The fact that you can't see the colors tells me that you're successful in other areas of your life.
You're in my area of brain-focus here so it's natural that I see more color than you do. Meanwhile I'd be totally useless if you had a dental issue or needed something translated from Spanish.
When you decide to re-open a brain-pathway you've lost, whether that's learning music or seeing colors accurately, it takes time to train your brain.
You can start this process by deliberately looking deeper at the colors around you, visually exploring objects with an open mind, just to see what you see. The more you look, the more you will see. You also need to exercise this color seeking skill on a consistent basis. Quality art instructors can help this process by constantly nudging you to find more color (especially when you get frustrated or lazy) and by pushing you past the boundaries you've set for yourself.
@@AmyShulke hi Amy, I am a fairly new subscriber to your channel. But I am definitely loving your "teaching style, choice of mediums, approaches & easy to understand explanations represented in your videos on RUclips."
I am curious about to identify undertones in reference photos. Do you have a course or series for that? And also do you have any course for lights & shadows in composition line work pages that do not have grayscale to help for each object in the entire composition of the illustration?
I've looked at the website but I'm unsure exactly what & where to find what I'm looking for, or if it even exists. Thank you for your help & assistance.
Happy New Year 2024 🎉🎆🎇✨
Hello Amy, what you have said about seeing color as a child is so true. I often tell people how many colors I use for an art piece, and most of the time they can't believe it. I just finished a Saber Tooth Cat painting-drawing, and I used about 50 colors. It is a gift that the average person doesn't have. It takes years to train our minds and our eyes to see the special rainbows. Thank you for sharing. I will subscribe to your channel. God bless.