Monday Motivator: Put More Paint in the Sky
By Marion Boddy-Evans “I used to paint the sky with thin mixtures of paint, but find I am better able to
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How to Write an Artist’s Statement
An artist’s statement is a short piece written by the artist to accompany a particular painting or group of paintings.
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Color Theory Lesson: Using Black and White
While it may seem logical that to lighten a color you add white to it and that to darken it
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Complementary Colors
The complementary color of a primary color (red, blue, or yellow) is the color you get by mixing the other
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Tertiary Colors
Browns and grays contain all three primary colors. They’re created by mixing either all three primary colors or a primary
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Mixing vs Buying Ready-Made Colors
Color mixing gives you a range of colors with a minimum number of tubes of paint (very useful when painting
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Secondary Colors
Secondary colors are made by mixing two primary colors together: red and yellow to get orange, yellow and blue to
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Warm and Cool Colors
Every color has a certain bias towards what’s called warm and cool. It’s not something that’s overwhelming; it’s subtle. But
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Color Theory Lesson: The Three Primaries
In color mixing for painting, the fundamental rule is that there are three colors that cannot be made by mixing
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Increasing Productivity as a Painter
To make life easy for your while you are painting with watercolours or acrylics, ensure you have plenty of water
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