The following palette is used for my oil painting students when they are beginning to paint. A very limited palette insures a good study of cool and warm temperatures, and practicing mixing and using value ranges. Much like playing an instrument, the practice and mastery of scales keeps the artists honest in their work. Details … More Limited Color Palette for Oil Painters
Glass. Transparency, opacity, and color. Today we worked drawing blue glass bottles, in a primary triad using blue as a dominant color. The triad harmony is blue, red, yellow. We’ve drawn the star shaped value scale, depicting a variety of the mixes and layerings of the colors. The drawn image has used a variety of … More Drawing With Color 1.7/also called 2.1 in the 6 week course
Drapery. The allure of it, the complication of it, drawing it with color. We’re using an equidistant tetrad, which is two sets of complementary colors that are evenly spaced on the color wheel. Here are some notes on the direction of this project, using blue-green as a dominant color. Part of the class used green … More Drawing With Color 1.6
This oil painting project looks at the form of a big and beautiful natural shell. We follow the same process of creating first a tonal drawing within a grid. Here is Rip’s version: Following are three palettes we are using in this painting: the grisaille (black to white underpainting), warm and cool ultramarine and burnt … More Shell
Just a recap from where we left off earlier: our first oil painting project with a limited palette: take a simple white object, have a strong light source on it, and create a tonal drawing: Ground your canvas with a burnt sienna wash (include a light grid with vine charcoal): We’re going to use a … More White Object, Part 1 & II
To revisit the properties of cool and warm temperatures, we look at using 6 warm or 6 cool colors in a drawing that will be of a white object. First, create a blended color scale, and below, a blended black/grey/white scale of corresponding values. Blended: one color or value into the next. The above example … More Drawing With Color 1.5
Drawing With Color, Washington Post (link to article “From Quilting to Painting”) Recently I was interviewed by Jennifer Forker, from the Associated Press. We talked about my color drawing curriculum that I developed and teach at The Drawing Studio, in Tucson. The same curriculum is also taught in my oil painting classes. I tell my students … More Drawing With Color, Washington Post
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