Well, I didn’t come up with a 4th of July cartoon for you; instead this popped into my head.
Artists say the darndest things, don’t they? Especially when it comes to color.
I’m just as bad as anyone—how do you REALLY explain the variations between colors, without using other colors in your explanation?
Simple answer: you can’t. : )
Finally, my "big project" is finished! It’s been a crazy day with a lot going on, but foliotwist.com is finally live and online! Since I’ve kept it a complete secret up until launch, here’s a quick (mostly visual) overview of what it does. . .read more
Understanding the color wheel and using color theory in your artwork is a good idea for any artist, and especially for oil painters. In this article I'll go through the basics of color theory (using a traditional artist's color wheel) and explain ways that oil painters and other artists can m. . . read more
Painting is a multi-faceted endeavor. . . it takes knowledge of values, edges, perspective—and of course, color. After all, color is what we use as painters to create the illusion of all of these other elements. Studying color, then, is an essential aspect of painting. All my painting li. . . read more
In today's article I want to explore four different color-mixing techniques that can be used with acrylic paints. To keep it really simple, we will only be making green, from yellow and blue. (The same techniques can be used for any color.) Of course, there are many possible greens in our worl. . . read more
Nobody wants to be boring—not in life, and not in their art. The good news is that we can avoid boring passages in our paintings simply by remembering to add variation in four specific ways while we paint. 1. Vary the direction of your brush strokes Creating a lot of similar brush strokes in t. . . read more
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