Why Colour Can Make Or Break Your Painting!...
Written by Anna Meenaghan
Sunday, 21 June 2009 07:38
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| Colours and music, in fact, seem to rule my life, making me also a bit of a colourful character. However, colour features strongly in painting to reflect the mood you are trying to create. The heat wi | |
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hin, or even the cold. It certainly makes a difference to your interpretation.
by AnnaMeenaghan Colours and music, in fact, seem to rule my life, making me also a bit of a colourful character. However, colour features strongly in painting to reflect the mood you are trying to create. The heat within, or even the cold. It certainly makes a difference to your interpretation. Colour affects us all, in any number of ways and we probably all favour certain colours, which please our senses. Sometimes too, accordingly, you can create the illusion of a feeling of space. Even our homes are pretty colourful now. As an example, if you want a restful, cool area |
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nting to reflect the mood you are trying to create. The heat within, or even the cold. It certainly makes a difference to your interpretation. Colour affects us all, in any number of ways and we probably all favour certain colours, which please our senses. Sometimes too, accordingly, you can create the illusion of a feeling of space. Even our homes are pretty colourful now. As an example, if you want a restful, cool area, what colours should you choose? Personally, my choices would probably be a mint green, pale blue or lilac. If you want the painting to jump out at you, as it were, well, you need to choose vibrant colours which will intensify your work. Not only will they stir up emotions inside you, but create the feeling of warmth, strong heat in fact. So, to let your emotions go wild, I would use very bright yellows, shades of orange, glorious reds and probably a touch of gold. Vlaminck loved colour. Colours can actually reflect our mood. For example "it's a grey day" or "I'm feeling blue'. This explains how you are feeling at a certain time. Nevertheless, they stick in our minds. Paintings can be helped by using complementary colours. Colours appear to change when you put other colours beside them. We all like different colours and also like to experiment with new ones. Make sure that you always have a white to mix colours and build up your shades from. Then, of course, some colours are permanent. Black, you will find, can block out colour. If you want to make shadows, shades of brown, whites or greys. Payne's Grey is a very useful colour to have. This is a paint which has already been mixed. This being a mixture of Mars Black, Ultramarine Blue and Yellow Ochre. As a shade this is very popular, being very versatile. I am sure that many artists would probably mix their own on their palettes. Artists alike find this is particularly good for watercolours. So y |
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nting to reflect the mood you are trying to create. The heat within, or even the cold. It certainly makes a difference to your interpretation. Colour affects us all, in any number of ways and we probably all favour certain colours, which please our senses. Sometimes too, accordingly, you can create the illusion of a feeling of space. Even our homes are pretty colourful now. As an example, if you want a restful, cool area, what colours should you choose? Personally, my choices would probably be a mint green, pale blue or lilac. If you want the painting to jump out at you, as it were, well, you need to choose vibrant colours which will intensify your work. Not only will they stir up emotions inside you, |
| Colours and music, in fact, seem to rule my life, making me also a bit of a colourful character. However, colour features strongly in painting to reflect the mood you are trying to create. The heat within, or even the cold. It certainly makes a difference to your interpretation.
by AnnaMeenaghan Colours and music, in fact, seem to rule my life, making me also a bit of a colourful character. However, colour features strongly in painting to reflect the mood you are trying to create. The heat within, or even the cold. It certainly makes a difference to your interpretation. Colour affects us all, in any number of ways and we probably all favour certain colours, which please our senses. Sometimes too, accordingly, you can create the illusion of a feeling of space. Even our homes are pretty colourful now. As an example, if you want a restful, cool area, what colours should you choose? Personally, my choices would probably be a mint green, pale blue or lilac. If you want the painting to jump out at you, as it were, well, you need to choose vibrant colours which will intensify your work. Not only will they stir up emotions inside you, but create the feeling of warmth, strong heat in fact. So, to let your emotions go wild, I would use very bright yellows, shades of orange, glorious reds and probably a touch of gold. Vlaminck loved colour. Colours can actually reflect our mood. For example "it's a grey day" or "I'm feeling blue'. This explains how you are feeling at a certain time. Nevertheless, they stick in our minds. Paintings can be helped by using complementary colours. Colours appear to change when you put other colours beside them. We all like different colours and also like to experiment with new ones. Make sure that you always have a white to mix colours and build up your shades from. Then, of course, some colours are permanent. Black, you will find, can block out colour. If you want to make shadows, shades of brown, whites or greys. Payne's Grey is a very useful colour to have. This is a paint which has already been mixed. This being a mixture of Mars Black, Ultramarine Blue and Yellow Ochre. As a shade this is very popular, being very versatile. I am sure that many artists would probably mix their own on their palettes. Artists alike find this is particularly good for watercolours. So yes, artists alike, make their impact with colour. It gives them freedom. We mix our colours in so many ways, but it can ***ist you if you have a full knowledge of the Primary Colours and the basic Colour Wheel. So I can only suggest you go to your local art supplier and buy a Colour Wheel. Colouring plays a vital part of your work, hence the make or break! Being drawn to different colours makes artists work more enjoyable to look at, as we all appreciate change and having another slant on something. Changing moods you have will be reflected in your work. Take as an example you have had a really bad day at work, you may take the misery out, in to your painting. Therefore it is likely to be dark colours used like blacks, browns, greys, mainly dark shades, at least this would be my choice. I admit that I prefer brighter shades! Thank goodness that we all have different colour choices and use them to advantage for our type of art! Remember too, using white with just one colour would work very well, it doesn't have to reflect a miserable feeling. About the Author: If you would like to read more "How To" guides about painting, then just visit the online art community of contemporary artist Anna Meenaghan. Anna, the writer for this guide, is a contemporary painter of many years, vast experience and operates a website for artists and art enthusiasts alike. There you can find more articles and also my own art, M. Bruckner
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