Color - is the best way for you to up your game.
Have you memorized the color wheel?
Have you memorized the color opposites?
Have you memorized the color triads?
Can you tell the difference between yellow orange and red orange?
What color is a tree, a leaf? How many colors can you use to paint a tree? Have you really looked at leaves up close?
I have seen trees painted in every possible color and often the more absurd the color - the more beautiful the end result of the painting.
While it might seem ridiculous, you will learn more about color by using the wrong colors and finding out how stunning your art will become.
One way is to use color triads for color schemes, such as red orange or purple for tree trunks.
The practice of painting trees, in a variety of shapes and colors, is one the best ways to develop your creativity and original style.
Trees are a universal symbol of long life, maturity and stability - a reliable subject for art.
The colors you like will greatly affect your use of color in your art. And the colors will be a deciding factor in who likes your art.
The colors in a painting can be the single greatest eliminating factor in who buys or not buys your art, especially if all other variables are equal.
If you only use the colors you like, you are limiting the audience that will enjoy and buy your art.
Learn the colors on the artist's color wheel.
Memorize the color wheel.
Until you memorize the colors, it's hard to tell orange from red orange unless you hold them up against red and/or yellow.
Learn the emotional meaning of colors.
People who love blue, green and violet generally don't buy things that are bright red, bright orange or bright yellow.
Color preference cannot be predicted or even understood, but people seem to maintain their high preferences on one side of the color wheel or the other over their lifetime.
Of course there are people who have an overall appreciation for the majority of colors, which may be gained over time.
Colors can be uplifting - or not.
Lighter shades of color are emotionally uplifting. Regardless of which colors you use, an overall light and medium shade painting has a much more pleasant, uplifting impact than a dark, moody painting.
Colors opposite each other on the color wheel can blend to produce neutrals which become varying shades of light, medium and dark.
Neutrals such as brown, sand and gray add "realism" to a painting.
Light, medium and dark are often referred to as "value."
In photography you usually have a white point and a black point in a photograph - with unlimited medium shades (values) in between. Your painting should have a white point and a black point, even if they are not completely white or complely black, and they can be very small in size.
Bright yellow-orange sunflowers in a meadow convey a different message from dark pine green evergreen trees on a dark blue mountain side under gray cloudy skies.
A person who does not like the color of yellow-orange, would probably never buy a sunflower painting. But that person most likely would find the shades of pink roses very appealing.
There probably are very few people who might buy a moody dark painting of evergreen trees in a dark forest under moonlight.
Many more people would probably prefer a light blue sky, green grass and assorted pine and deciduos trees next to a creek reflecting a blue sky.
A blue and green painting can take many forms, in various shades of light and dark.
The more you research and study the work of other artists, the more natural and intuitive your art will become.
Research will enable you to paint with more confidence, because it will be more obvious to you when the composition, elements and colors are balanced in a pleasing way.
Composition needs a center of interest, not usually centered in the painting, plus a balance of a light source, and shadows. The center of interest can have a few supporting shapes or colors as accents.
The area of highest contrast will become the center of interest whether you plan it or not.
Research will give you a close-up look at how other artists use color in many unexpected ways.
Pinterest, Youtube and Facebook are among the best sources of instruction on technique.
Each brush shape produces very different marks on the paper or canvas. A brush that is too large for details will create a much more loose or abstract stroke. A small brush makes small marks, forcing you to paint with more care and precision. Paint is very different in watercolor, acrylic, oil, pencil, watercolor pencil, pastel, etc.
Do you know the color songs?
- Red is warm, exuberant, angry, shouts.
- Yellow is warm, cheerful and sunny.
- Orange is warm, jumps up and down.
- Lime green is energetic and electric.
- Blue is cool, tranquil, dignified, soothing, peaceful, stable.
- Green is cool, harmonious and unifying.
- Soft orange - peach - warm, is welcoming.
- Brown is warm, dependable, traditional.
- Burgundy is cool, adds life to dark colors.
- Grey is serious, conservative, professional, sophisticated.
- Black is permanent, alone it is depressing.
Art can lower your blood pressure.
A more peaceful subject and colors will appeal to a more mature and older group who will value having their blood pressure lowered. The right colors and subject can bring down blood pressure in such a way that a viewer may even notice a sense of peace. Since they are more likely to have discretionary funds, it is good business to research subjects and colors likely to lower blood pressure - which are not lions and tigers, but would be water scenes, landscapes, gardens, plants, flowers, still lifes, etc.
That is one of the foundations of the business of art - what is the point of the story?
The Audience.
If you are painting for the market place, you are painting for someone else's enjoyment, not yours. Colors next to each other - on the color wheel - are visually appealing and harmonious.
- Choose three colors next to each other on the color wheel for your dominant colors with an add (up to a 70/30 ratio) of the opposite color of one of them.
- Choose five colors, or more. next to each other on the color wheel. The important thing is that you use all five (or more) of them.
- Expand your color selection to include at least all the cool colors or all the warm colors.
- Choose one color and paint in the various tints and shades of that color.
- Color triads are another option for color selection, but they take a lot more skill, work and usually some additional colors to create a harmonious color scheme. They can look forced if there isn't sufficient light and shadow to create variety.
- Triads are equal distance from each other on the color wheel.
- Triads can keep your focus on creativity.
Triads - Primaries - Secondary - Tertiary
- Red, yellow and blue are the Primary Triad - quite popular - and used to some degree by most artists.
Secondary Triads
Orange, green and violet are the Secondary Triad. They are the colors created by mixing the primary colors with each other. They should be stretched to include various tints and shades of each them, rather than just one shade seen on a color wheel. It shouldn't be ovious that your painting is a triad exercise of orange, green and violet.
Tertiary Triads
The Secondary and Tertiary Triads sometimes seemed "forced" when used as blobs of each color, since they are not colors usually seen in nature in those configurations.
Tertiary Triads
- The Tertiary Triads are the remaining colors on the color wheel created by mixing the primary and secondary colors.
- Tertiary - Red-violet, Yellow-orange, Blue-green
- Tertiary - Red-orange, Yellow-green, Blue-violet
Subtle additions of a few other colors are generally beneficial, such as tints and shades of colors on the color wheel that are adjoining the dominant color.
Color Wheels and Triads are on my "What's New" page.
http://falling-star.com/whatsnew.html
Nature has a preference for green and blue in combination with water, trees, rolling hills adorned with colorful flowers to lower your blood pressure.
The sky, ocean and seas consists of thousands of shades of blue and green. People who have spent time around the water are likely to want paintings that depict the relaxing properties of water.
Brown and gray add a contrast that strengthens other colors, and lends realism to a painting.
A drive in country can bring your blood pressure down.
You can bring that peace to your art.
Color should not be used in blobs of just one color, but in dabs, strokes, spots, flecks, splatters, glazes, shades, mixes, marks, scratches, and variations of the dominant color. You can add accents from adjoining color wheel colors.
You can add one accent color from a triad.
You can add an opposite on the color wheel as an accent color will bring the colors to life that you can't get any other way.
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Color Wheels and Triads
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The most peaceful colors.
Nature has a preference for green and blue in combination with water, trees, rolling hills adorned with colorful flowers to lower your blood pressure.
The sky, ocean and seas consists of thousands of shades of blue and green. People who have spent time around the water are likely to want paintings that depict the relaxing properties of water.
Brown and gray add a contrast that strengthens other colors, and lends realism to a painting.
A drive in country can bring your blood pressure down.
You can bring that peace to your art.
Color should not be used in blobs of just one color, but in dabs, strokes, spots, flecks, splatters, glazes, shades, mixes, marks, scratches, and variations of the dominant color. You can add accents from adjoining color wheel colors.
You can add one accent color from a triad.
You can add an opposite on the color wheel as an accent color will bring the colors to life that you can't get any other way.
Falling-Star.com beautitul nature art
Color Wheels and Triads
http://falling-star.com/whatsnew.html
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