Remember to leave room so you’ll have plenty of white petal left between the colored center and the background.Īt this point, keep your value sketch and the reference photo where you can look at them, but as much as possible work from memory. Starting with the blue, block in the center of the middle blossom. I used my synthetic squirrel quill brush because the soft bristles hold lots of water and paint.ġ. We’ll be letting the colors blend on the paper so we create lots of soft and lost & found edges, rather than mixing colors on the palette. Let’s Get to the Paintingįor this part of the painting, use a paint to water consistency of thin milk - think 1% milk.
You don’t want to overdo the dull areas, but they give the eye a rest and make the other colors seem brighter by contrast. The yellow-green is light and bright, but at the top it turns dull. This also has all three kinds of edges, but it also has a distinct change of chroma. With some edges it is hard to be sure where one color ends and the other color begins - those are lost and found edges.ģ. The edges between the colors are pretty distinct but not sharp - those are soft edges. It’s good to have a variation in the value contrasts.Ģ. The edges between white and blue are distinct but have less contrast, and the same is true between purple and blue. The purple and white have an extreme contrast in value. There is a clear and abrupt change between white, purple and blue. I’ve cropped a few areas from the finished painting to explain edges and chroma.ġ.
Once you figure out the colors for each value, you might want to do a chart to keep for reference (then you don’t have to keep doing them so often). And you can mess up on the chart, so that you won’t mess up the painting.Īfter I did this chart I decided that I didn’t want to use the Cadmium Yellow Hue. The more colors you try, the more you’ll learn, and the more confident you’ll be. But the whole point of the this chart is to help you choose the right colors for your values. I had a pretty good idea of the colors I wanted, having already done similar charts. This helps you plan how much water to use as well as figuring out which colors work for each value. You just use more water to lighten as needed. The same color can be used for different values. The white will be the color of the paper so it wasn’t needed here.īeside the black and grays, I paint a square of a few colors that looks like it has the same value. Next I took the same markers and drew a square for the black and three grays.
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