Hang in there everyone! Glad you could join me again this week from containment. I sincerely hope that talking about painting will keep your mind off any worries for a few minutes and we can chat about beauty and art. So continuing from last week, as this painting...
“What color should I use for skin?” I get asked this question all of the time. Last week I talked about how low-chroma colors can serve you well when thinking about painting people. This week I want to think about the opposite. How high-chroma color can...
“Pink” is just a name for a broad category of colors. So last week I talked about how the appearance of a color can be deceiving. Colors shift and take on the properties of light and shadow. In the photo above I have some nice pink pastel sticks selected....
I often see artists getting ready to paint something like this flower above and I watch them getting out all their pretty, pink pastel sticks or start to mix up pink paint… uh… nope. An important element to being an artist is the ability to see clearly. To...
I got new glasses…. And in getting new glasses I discovered a few things. I am not that young anymore. Yes, I finally had to break down and get Progressives. Or those pesky “bifocals” as we used to call them. Ok, I am almost 52 years old, so I guess...
