color mixing strategies: contrasting layers, monochromatic mood, impasto textures
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Color Mixing Strategies • Painting in Contrasting Layers
• Monochromatic Color Schemes• Impasto Mixing with Knives
Painting in Layers
• Bright underneath• Dull on top
Red over a yellow and green under painting
• Pink/orange underneath• Let it Dry• Dark blue on top• “clouds” are “holes in the sky”• (Georgia O’Keefe watercolor)
• You can let the bottom layer show through
• In this case, the leaves (brown) is the bottom layer
• Orange underneath• Blue on top• You can see one under
the other
• painting on a black background
• painting on an orange background
Rothko
Monochromatic Color schemes
• Monochromatic color schemes create a strong mood
Kandinksy
Monochromatic color = Light/dark, Bright/dull, Warm/cool
varieties of the same hue
Each time of day has its own MOOD
‘white marble’ is not ‘white’
Monet
Picasso’s ‘Blue Period’
Hirsch
Elmer Bischoff
Daniel Rabier
Daniel Rabier
Judith Klain
John Reamer
Eddie Fitzgerald
Kathy Wilson
Pam Pitt
Susan Scannon
impasto painting with knives
Smearing, like butter on toast
Flat, minimal and smooth
Double-Loading and SMEARING 2 COLORS TOGETHER
Thin LINES
hard edged PATTERNS
Press and lift, use the TENSION of the blade
SCRATCHING and scraping
Change the PRESSURE of your hand, create thick and thin in flowing motion
Vincent often worked-out his painting knife strokes in separate ink drawings like this.
Eddie Fitzgerald
sand mixed into the paint (David Miller)
Tom O’Neill
Tom O’Neill
Tom O’Neill
Tom O’Neill
Tom O’Neill
Tom O’Neill
Tom O’Neill
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