Colour Mixing for Roses - How to Keep the Vibrance
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Today I'm starting a commission, and there's something a little tricky about the colour. It's roses, and the colour of the flowers goes out of the range of paint.
For the peach-orange roses I can have the colour light enough for the lights, but only if I accept not having enough chroma - so duller looking flowers. Or I can have the chroma high enough if I accept a lower value for the lights. But then I need to change the value of everything else to fit. Or do I?
In this session I'm starting a colour sketch to investigate how best to balance the values and chroma across the painting to get the effect I want - bright, vibrant roses.
I'll be talking a lot about the range of paint and how you can think about the relationship between value and chroma to make paintings more vibrant. I'll be doing some live mixing, and hopefully, I'll get as far as putting some paint on the panel!
Hello from the hills of Southern California!
Really enjoyed this. Thank you for letting us follow along. Tempted to get a munsell book. I’ve printed color chips using munsell as I have an archival art printer… but having them organized in a binder looks so useful!
I’m struggling with some commission anxiety so I appreciated the banter at the end. So great!
Munsell is a great way to learn colour I think, and the book has been invaluable to me. Expensive, yes, but not so much when you look at it as a business cost. I've had mine for over ten years and have used it intensively, it's allowed me to ask questions about colour and painting and get my own answers without having to take anyone else's word for it - I think that's a very useful thing! There is so much misunderstanding about colour, and many of the most vocal people seem to know the least.
Hopefully your client will have seen your work and chosen you, so I hope it goes ok. It's easy to say "be confident!" and much less simpe to feel of course, but I'm glad to hear the chat about commissions helped a bit!
Honestly I think it's like most things - the more you do it, the easier it gets. I don't often take commissions now because it can be a bit of a nightmare depending on the client.
@@PaulFoxton My last role before becoming a full time artists I was working with 3D scanning of paintings from Tate and National Gallery of Canada. I spent my time color matching paintings and doing a deep dive calibrating our scanner with Munsell Chips. My eyeballs got so much good training. So I was immediately drawn to your methodical process. I look forward to following your process.
And thank you for making me feel better about avoiding commissions. Like you mentioned in the video... I want to focus my life to be the best painter I can be!! Always learning & improving.
Hi from Lebanon Beirut what is the difference between led white and titanium white which is cooler which is warmer thank you
Titanium is cooler and stronger in mixes, lead white is warmer and more transparent.
Siempre usas colores michael harding.¿porque con el blanco de plomo utilizas rublev y no el cremnitz white de michael harding?
Hi Paul, how do you source lead white?
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Is Flake white same as Led .
Usually, yes, although some paint makers are now calling other things flake white - usually titanium with a bit of yellow in it. Real flake white is lead white.
¿consideras que el cremnitz white de Michael harding es de mala calidad?
No, esa es buena pintura. Simplemente me gusta más Rublev.
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How did the birthday party go for your oldest?
Really well thank you! Birthday week with cake every day. I'm sure we didn't get that when I was a kid!