Tag: artist’s paint colors
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Streaming Mood
Changing color or texture in a painting can change the whole mood and feel of a painting.
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Colorful Fridays-Essentially Red
Click the links for a look back at the main reds used by most artists, for a bit of history and a few tips. Wallet Friendly Fire-engine Red Expensive Wormy Insect Red The Invisible Color of Harmonious War Incredible Inedible Yellow-reds The Rosy Red Sisters The Queen’s Red
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Colorful Fridays-The Greens That Matter
Colorful Fridays is recapping the colors covered. Here are the main shades of green on most artist’s palettes: Mossy Knife Sharpening Green Fruity Green Berry, Berry Grass Green Shady Green
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Colorful Fridays–The Yellows
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” Pablo Picasso Colorful Fridays has reached a turning point where the majority of single colors have been covered. Colorful Fridays will begin color mixes after recapping the colors we have covered. Here are the yellows: Healthy Love Inspiring…
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Colorful Fridays–Shady Green
Colorful Fridays is off at the Double Decker Festival in Oxford, Mississippi. Here is a return to the first Colorful Friday. See you next Friday!
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Colorful Fridays–Two Carl, Keep Calm Purple
“But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon.” From Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955) (from Sensationalcolor.com) If you want to know more about this deep rich clear purple, look to the artists. Only the artists have an appreciation for this purest purple. Dioxazine Purple is a mainstay for today’s flower and nature…
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Colorful Fridays-Accidental, Grandmotherly, Dusty Purple
“Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.” James McNeil Whistler In the nineteenth century, the color mauve became all the rage in more than one country, so much so that the 1890’s were called The Mauve Decade, in a book by Thomas Beer. The rage started with two royal ladies, Queen Victoria of England…
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Colorful Fridays-Wallet Friendly, Fire Engine Red
“Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.” Bill Blass (from Brainyquote.com) The very-expensive, highly-toxic Vermilion red was replaced by the lesser expensive and less toxic Cadmium reds in artist’s palettes in the nineteenth century. Less toxic and less expensive was less than perfect so the search for the perfect red continued. Eventually, chemists came up…
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Colorful Fridays–Basically Black
“A black cat crossing your path signifies that the cat is going somewhere.” Groucho Marx Artists are divided on the use of black in painting. Many artists prefer to mix black from complementary colors believing this mix to have more depth than actual black from a tube. Some artists use no black at all. Rembrandt…