These are some paintings in which my favorite part is the wall.
Enjoy.
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper
Susan Bennerstrom
Susan Bennerstrom
Susan Bennerstrom
Chelsea James
Chelsea James
Alex Kanevsky
Alex Kanevsky
Alex Kanevsky
Antonio Lopez Garcia
Antonio Lopez Garcia
Antonio Lopez Garcia
Antonio Lopez Garcia
Matteo Massagrande
Matteo Massagrande
Jennifer O’Connell
Susan Lichtman
Liu Xiadong
Ruthie V.
Do not paint a white thing white. A white thing is everything other than white.
The video below illuminates some of the colors actually present in an image of a white horse, and a white flower. Because colors change according to what they’re next to, they still fool me even after all these years.
COLOR MIXING TIP 1: When I want to match a color without being fooled by illusions, I isolate it from the surrounding colors by looking at it through a hole in a piece of white or gray paper.
COLOR MIXING TIP 2: To test a color mix with a photo reference, I put the reference in a big ziplock bag and plop the paint right on the plastic over the photo so I can see what needs adjusting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCf1KAl8c6E
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. UNIDEXTRAL If you’re ambidextrous then you can use both …
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Portraits of Blank Walls
These are some paintings in which my favorite part is the wall.
Enjoy.
The video below illuminates some of the colors actually present in an image of a white horse, and a white flower. Because colors change according to what they’re next to, they still fool me even after all these years.
COLOR MIXING TIP 1: When I want to match a color without being fooled by illusions, I isolate it from the surrounding colors by looking at it through a hole in a piece of white or gray paper.
COLOR MIXING TIP 2: To test a color mix with a photo reference, I put the reference in a big ziplock bag and plop the paint right on the plastic over the photo so I can see what needs adjusting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCf1KAl8c6E
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