I had loads of yellow watercolors and a couple were the same PY. Not very happy-making, that. Another good reason for paying attention to the pigment numbers.
I'm happy to be through this part of my process this year and will have the rest of these swatch videos up by next week.
Yellow is an excellent color. In my opinion, the most useful of all colors because it just seems to make everything better. It brightens, pops forward is an excellent mixer.
I have more yellows on my palette than any other color. Because of its light value, it's often used up first.
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(DS: Daniel Smith. WN: Winsor & Newton. DR Daler Rowney. Hansa Yellow Medium DS PY97 Lemon Yellow W&N PY 175 Lemon Yellow DS PY 175 Cobalt Yellow DS PY 40 New Gamboge DS PY 153 (The color of my livingroom :) Yellow Ochre DR PY 43 Yellow Ochre MGraham 43 Nickel Azo Yellow QoR PY 150 Nickel Azo Yellow MGraham PY 150 (earthier) Transparent Yellow Nickel Azo Yellow PY 150
Color is sometimes the first choice you make and plays a major role in drawing people into your work. It's a great way to combat blank page syndrome. If you find yourself staring at your blank journal, card base or any art project, use the color wheel as a springboard to get started.
Primary Colors Red Yellow and Blue are spaced out on the color wheel with three colors between them. The middle colors are made when mixing the primary colors to the right and left:
Yellow & Red = Orange
Red + Blue = Purple Blue + Yellow = Green
First Grade stuff, right? Well maybe not. I'm going to be thorough and not make assumptions.
Nerd Alert Fun Facts: Did you know that Sir Issac Newton invented the color wheel? He likened the colors to musical notes and then joined the two ends. OMG. Some people are so smart! Here you can read about the history and development. A hundred years later Johann Wolfgang Goethe observed the "temperature" of colors. Identifying them as warm and cool and looking at the psychological impact they have on folks.
Secondary Colors Orange Purple and Green are also evenly spaced around the wheel. In between those colors are the Tertiary Colors where things start to get interesting.
Red + Violet = Red Violet, Magenta Violet + Blue = Blue Violet, such as Hydrangea (swoon) and Periwinkle
Blue + Green = Pool, Teal Green + Yellow = those zingy yellow greens such as Tim Holtz Twisted Citron and Pear colors.
Complementary Colors occur opposite each other on the color wheel. They are Purple & Yellow, Blue & Orange, Green & Red. But they can also be Orange Yellow and Blue Violet. And they march right around the color wheel. These pairs create grays and browns if mixed together. They cancel each other out; neutralize each other.
Split Complementary Colors are a triad. You take a color such as Yellow. Its complement is Purple. So you split the difference and the triad is Yellow, Blue Violet and Red Violet. It's an interesting combo.
More Vocabulary:
Tint = the color + white Tone = the color + gray Shade = the color + black
More Color Harmony. Ahhhhh! Who doesn't love harmony? And you can have loads of it by using color relationships such as
Monochromatic color schemes use just one color but you can use any tint, tone or shade of that color Analogous colors schemes use colors that are right next to each other on the color wheel: Red, Red Orange, Orange, Yellow A Triad: 3 colors equally spaced on the wheel Tetrad: 4 colors consisting of 2 sets of complementary colors/
It's all about The Wheel
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Oh PR 209! Where have you been all of my life. LOL. My decision not to buy any more paint until I swatched all my paints out went right out the window when I found this tube at a local art supply (Artist & Craftsman in Chestnut Hill).
I swatched it with :
Quin Gold PO 48, PY150, QoR Cobalt Yellow PY 40 Daniel Smitih Quin Rose PV 19 Daniel Smith Permanent Red PR 170 Daniel Smith Lemon Yellow PY 175 Daniel Smith Rich Green Gold PY129 Daniel Smith Phthalo Green PG 7 Cobalt Teal PG 50 Phthalo Blue GS PB15:3 Ultramarine Violet PV 15
Green Gold PY129 and Phthalo Green PG7 were two surprise fav mixes.
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I'll be on vacation for the next week (!). We're driving north because we're crazy. Also people we love live in Massachusetts and Vermont. I'll be back a week from Thursday with another post and video. In the meantime ....
I placed my order at Dick Blick after sweating over it for a couple of weeks. Here is a sneak peek. These are Daniel Smith's Prima Tek colors, made from minerals so no P #'s. I was squealing as I swatched. Granulation, mica glitter. That first one is Piemonite. All of the separation and color shifting just ... happens. Swoon.
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I had some leftover paints out in my porcelain mixing cups and figured I'd turn on the camera and use them up! In my Dina Wakely Art Journal:
In my Chunky. By the way, I've had many requests for a tutorial on making a Chunky journal. I am putting a class together.
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From DickBlick : http://shrsl.com/s8jq Daniel Smith: Lemon Yellow Pyrrole Red French Ultramarine Blue: Burnt Umber Ultramarine Violet Pyrrole Orange Teal New Gamboge Nickel Azo Yellow
Ooopa! This a technique that I've been playing with for a couple of months now. Here are a bunch of photos from my play time over the past week (or so). The video and supplies are linked below.
The indigo paint and Yupo paper in my July Artsnacks box inspired me to try the technique on Yupo.
Fun results are very easy to obtain! Spread the paint out and lay the stencil down right into the wet paint. Set it aside, leaving the stencil in place until it's try (or there are no puddles left). Try to avoid peeking. Good luck with that.
Any kind of stencil will work. Just keep the stencil in scale to the paper size. In other words, I was working on those mini pieces of Yupo so used small scale stencils.
I played with blowing, splashing, dropping and water and sucking color up with a damp brush. Great stuff! It's easy to get fingerprints onto the Yupo paper and it will resist paint a little. I solved the problem by using an embossing bag which has a powder in it that neutralizes any oils.
I hope you'll give this technique a try. Any kind of watercolor and paper will work. Use darker colors for more dramatic results. I imagine any watersoluble crayons will work well too. Just make sure the paper is very wet when you lay the stencil down.
I used Phthalo Green and Indigo on the paper above and, honestly!, that is just so cool looking! I love the way the colors separate in some places and mix in others. Very cool. Oh! I used mineral paper on that one. But that's a story for another day.
Recently I attended a beautiful art quilt show. Kaffe Fassett* quilts side by side with his historic inspiration quilts.
Lines don't need to be straight. I love that organic line that guides but doesn't trap.
Chevron never goes out of style and great historic work always looks fresh.
Even a minimalist will agree that even though less is sometimes more, when pattern is well combined more is more (better).
Kaffe Fassett is a fabric arts, fabric designer and extraordinary artist. For more inspiration, go look at Kaffe 's site here. His fabrics are widely available at quilt shops everywhere.
Happy Monday friends! I'm hoping that this week I start feeling more like more old self.
Walk out the door. The wind lifts yours hair and brushes your cheeks, painting them cool. The sun above warms your head if you lift your face to feel the last of the heat in a hot fudge Sunday of sensation.
Each guffaw and gust spills leaves. They chase and tease a game of tag with scuffling, old paper sounds. Mangos, limes and persimmons have been swept into a glorious salad. Russet, burgundy and golden twinkles in tornadoes, sweeping down streets and through lanes covering paths with color.
The growing seasons of spring and summer escape from their tree cages as you walk, shuffling through color from pastel to gem, from dying to living. Autumnal majesty blesses us and pays homage to each season. Soon the earth rests.
Coloring books are all the rage at the moment. A trend rolling down hill spurring on illustrators and publishers across the country and the world to make high quality products for color-happy customers.
You'll see in the video that I've tried out colored pencils, markers, colored pens and alcohol markers. I like the colored pencils best for all-round coloring especially on detailed images.
Try whatever you have on hand. I look forward to using gel pens and making patterns with colored pens too. No reason why you can't paint and use collage on these pages. You may want to remove them from the book first.
My friend, Susan, used colored pencils, pens and gel pens for the images (above and following). She found postcard sized illustrations at a big box craft store. These books are everywhere: art and craft stores, books stores and online. You can find links to print out images too.
Google "images for coloring for adults" and you'll find plenty to keep you busy. I hope you take up this craze and pass it on to friends and family. Coloring is fun and it's so happy-making to get folks making art in any way at all. Enjoy the video.
Nobody practices art like a little kid. Todays post and video were inspired by a comment from a child and I ran with it. I broke out my never-used Gelatos. These were inherited art supplies and I like 'em. They are really silky smooth and mooshy. Like Portfolios, yes. But even more buttery and smooth. Really a great art material. However, the way they are packaged stinks. I don't need extra brushes or stamps. I just want a basic rainbow of colors.
I ordered a pack meant for kids over here at Amazon that has the rainbow so I'll let you know how the quality is.
Folding vellum produces a beautiful pattern. I'm using a heavier than usual weight vellum from Bazzil (linked below). You can make all sorts of patterns and starbursts, even crumpling.
I hope that this is a simple playful art journal idea for you! You can see where something didn't work out and what I did to make it work. And so the idea - let's make it #practiceart - can be a revolution. Tell your kids.
This video has more chat than usual. I'm not so sure if you really want to hear the ramblings in my brain. Let me know. I tend to want videos that are short and sweet myself. I'm trying to find a good balance.
Quick word on the mists I use. I put some (a good pinch) of PearlEx or Perfect Pearls into a mini mister. You can add water or reinker and water for a great spray. Extend your supplies.
This past weekend was the first one that I felt well enough to have fun and I had plenty of it. The trick to February, I think, is to bundle up and get out.
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