Tag: Color
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Anticipating Joy
Hope! New Life! Survival! Beauty! Signs are pointing toward spring popping out all over. The Anticipation is overwhelming!
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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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Timeless Appeal
Cardinals never grow old as an artist’s subject. People love cardinals. They always will.
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Shining the Artistic Light
One of the most rewarding things about teaching art workshops is the wonder of how unique artistic talent is to each individual. I don’t teach workshops where everybody expects to paint the same thing and have them all come out looking like a row of cookie cutter canvases. The freedom for each artist to express…
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Mossy, Knife Sharpening Green
“All theory, Dear Friend, is gray. But the Golden Tree of Life springs ever green.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (from Brainyquote.com) Landscape painters, ceramists, make-up artists, soap makers and more love this mossy green pigment. Chromium Green has been available for two centuries and has recently been discovered in the paintings of J. M. W.…
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Colorful Fridays–Everything’s Coming Up Orchids
“A captivating harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid emanates great love, joy and health.” Leatrice Eiseman executive director, Pantone Color Institute Frantically searching through paint boxes, “Radiant Orchid” is nowhere to be found. No “Radiant Orchid” in the watercolor box or the oil box. Can’t find it in the pastels either. Horror…
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Weekend Inspiration–Colorful Imagination
Click the link and use your mouse to imagine your own color show. Warning: its mesmerizing but incredibly fun! http://neave.com/imagination/ The more you move the mouse, the more color you create!
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Colorful Fridays–Impressions of Heavenly Blue
“Let the blue sky meet the blue sea and all is blue for a time.” Moncy Barbour (from The Painter’s Keys) How can a blue go from the color of heaven to the definition of depression? Cerulean Blue has an array of descriptions that run the gamut from peace and harmony to gloomy moodiness. Pantone.com…
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Colorful Fridays–Red-less Monkey Yellow
“Happiness is Gamboge, ennui is grey…” Jonathan Meades (The Times of London by Wordsmith.org) The most beautiful warm glowing yellows in paintings are often the result of the liberal use of the orangey yellow Gamboge. So warm and glowing is this color that it is said to be used to dye the robes of certain…
