Comment on Picking Colors by starcandy12
Thank you for the advice. I think one of the reasons I thought painting unusual colors on a person would look strange was because I rarely ever have real backgrounds with my pieces like these have (excluding the close-up, but I've never done those either). Colored light sources are something else I've never considered. I'll try this too. Thank you for the examples; I'll study them for my next piece.
I did hold my hand up like you suggested, and the light from the room made my hand slightly yellow while the computer screen's light made a strong bluish color. I've never paid much attention to small things like that; I'll make sure to try and study them as well.
I did hold my hand up like you suggested, and the light from the room made my hand slightly yellow while the computer screen's light made a strong bluish color. I've never paid much attention to small things like that; I'll make sure to try and study them as well.
I warn you, once you start watching things like the colour of skin, hair, clothes etc and the lighting, on yourself, and on your friends and family, random strangers on the bus, you'll never ever stop and it'll become one of those strange things you do other people think is odd, however it'll improve your paintings.
With a painting even if it's just a figure, try to start off with a coloured background, something neutral or even something bright, instead of just white, then you'll already have a colour to play with
With a painting even if it's just a figure, try to start off with a coloured background, something neutral or even something bright, instead of just white, then you'll already have a colour to play with
I did this once or twice and people did think I was odd, but I got some inspiration.I'll do that from now on. Thank you very much for your help.
I like to look at how things look in different lighting conditions, such as dusk, rainstorms, articifial light, department stores, sunny days, under a tree.. it does indeed get addictive.
I mean Monet the artist was obsessed by painting light. He used to paint the same scene 3 or 4 times at different times of the day in order to capture the different light.
I mean Monet the artist was obsessed by painting light. He used to paint the same scene 3 or 4 times at different times of the day in order to capture the different light.
I've seen art where the artist played with different lighting effects. It's very interesting.
You've given me something else I need to study. I've probably seen them, but I can't say I know any of Monet's pieces. Unless the piece is really famous (eg. Van Gogh's Starry Night), I probably can't put a fine artist's name to a piece. I'll add looking up Monet to my to-do list.
You've given me something else I need to study. I've probably seen them, but I can't say I know any of Monet's pieces. Unless the piece is really famous (eg. Van Gogh's Starry Night), I probably can't put a fine artist's name to a piece. I'll add looking up Monet to my to-do list.
The impressionist, of which Monet was, were the first people to really and trully obsess over light, because they liked to paint out of doors which previously was impossible.
All previous painting, even if it was an ourdoor scene was painted in a studio, but thanks to the invention of tubes to put paint in (such a simple thing we take for granted) suddently Monet and the other Impressionists could go outdoors and paint in nature what they saw right in front of them.
I'm sure you know if you try to memorise something and repaint it later the colours wouldn't be the same as if you just looked at it. That's what made the impressionists such a revolutionary art movement.
All previous painting, even if it was an ourdoor scene was painted in a studio, but thanks to the invention of tubes to put paint in (such a simple thing we take for granted) suddently Monet and the other Impressionists could go outdoors and paint in nature what they saw right in front of them.
I'm sure you know if you try to memorise something and repaint it later the colours wouldn't be the same as if you just looked at it. That's what made the impressionists such a revolutionary art movement.
Thank you for the art lesson. I haven't taken Fine Arts Studies yet so this is all new to me. Would you recommend I study impressionists to learn about light? Are there any other art movements that emphasize light?
I would definitely look at the impressionists as part of a study of light, or even just to appreciate what they did as painters.
If you look at Monet, as seen here, you can just see the brightness and vivacity of what he painted, it just seems 'real' even though the actual drawings are not hyper realistic styling.
In comparison a slightly earlier painter, [link] paints also fabulous landscapes but they have a slightly different colour cast to them, much heavier and less 'real' although the actual details are much more 'realistic' such as the details in the sea.
Neither of course is wrong, how can Art be wrong, but both have different outlooks and something can be learned from both of them.
I of course am a fan of both of these painters, hence why I chose them as examples, but if you don't like what they do, go out and find painters you do like
If you're interested in Art I would definitely encourage you to look up art history in your own time. Study in more detail the things you like, gloss over the stuff you don't, and just enjoy the work. If you don't understand it perhaps look in more detail. There are some Art movements like dadaism that make me go "wtf" and I understand what they meant but I don't like the work. So not all of it will be "ooo prettty".
The impressionists are favourites of mine in general, for what they stood for as people, and what they created, and I do have a minor obsession with them, but there are other movements I know nothing about because I am not interested in them. We are a sum, as artists, of all that interests us.
If you look at Monet, as seen here, you can just see the brightness and vivacity of what he painted, it just seems 'real' even though the actual drawings are not hyper realistic styling.
In comparison a slightly earlier painter, [link] paints also fabulous landscapes but they have a slightly different colour cast to them, much heavier and less 'real' although the actual details are much more 'realistic' such as the details in the sea.
Neither of course is wrong, how can Art be wrong, but both have different outlooks and something can be learned from both of them.
I of course am a fan of both of these painters, hence why I chose them as examples, but if you don't like what they do, go out and find painters you do like
If you're interested in Art I would definitely encourage you to look up art history in your own time. Study in more detail the things you like, gloss over the stuff you don't, and just enjoy the work. If you don't understand it perhaps look in more detail. There are some Art movements like dadaism that make me go "wtf" and I understand what they meant but I don't like the work. So not all of it will be "ooo prettty".
The impressionists are favourites of mine in general, for what they stood for as people, and what they created, and I do have a minor obsession with them, but there are other movements I know nothing about because I am not interested in them. We are a sum, as artists, of all that interests us.
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