Simplifying Design & Color for Artists: Positive Results Using Negative Painting Techniques
Linda Kemp
Language: English
Pages: 144
ISBN: 1440325235
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
When you become a better designer and colorist, you become a better painter.
Painting doesn't have to be complicated to be good. In fact, it shouldn't be. Artist and best-selling author Linda Kemp (Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines) bypasses all the complexities of design and color to focus on a fresh, simplified strategy for success that features negative painting--a method that uses the space around your subject to help define it.
Improve your painting step by step with projects and exercises that will help your work stand out from the crowd. With Simplifying Design & Color for Artists, you'll learn:
- Strategies for creating simple yet effective compositions, focusing on the relationship between shape, space, and color.
- Useful tips on color--how to simplify it, mix your own, and work with value, hue and intensity.
- Techniques for designing with shape: size and edge, layering, and building dimension and movement.
- 18 step-by-step projects in watercolor and acrylic.
The approach may be simple, but your art will be spectacular!
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in plastic bags, little peppermint tins and heirloom-quality wooden pochade boxes. Your paintbox may be brimming with tubes large and tiny or blocks of assorted brands of your favorite colors. Overstuffed new tubes of creamy, fresh color offer hopeful promises of painting delights yet to come; old, squeezed-dry tubes of favorite colors are treasured reminders of past happy painting days. Some artists may sort their paint in a very orderly manner by color, brand or pigment quality, while others
on your table. STEP 4: Eliminate some color chips Remove any chips that would be described as brown, black, white, cream, rust, gray, earthy or neutral. While Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Payne’s Gray, Burnt Umber and Raw Umber may be some of your favorites, they are not pure spectral colors and will not be included in this color wheel. STEP 5: Keep the beautiful brights The chips that remain must appear clean and vibrant or jewel-like—beautiful, pure spectral hues. Think rainbow
together. Although acrylics can be thinned with water, care must be taken not to overdilute. It is recommended that you thin acrylic paints with glazing medium or airbrush medium to maintain the intrinsic quality of the paint. Do check with the paint manufacturer for specific information. The major adjustment required when switching from transparent watercolor to acrylics and other painting media is the adding of white and black to the palette. Artists who restrict their palette to transparent
together. Although acrylics can be thinned with water, care must be taken not to overdilute. It is recommended that you thin acrylic paints with glazing medium or airbrush medium to maintain the intrinsic quality of the paint. Do check with the paint manufacturer for specific information. The major adjustment required when switching from transparent watercolor to acrylics and other painting media is the adding of white and black to the palette. Artists who restrict their palette to transparent
they wedge and spiral together, its curves and angles. Study the nuances of its color; inhale its fragrance. You will then have discovered the secret beauty or essence of that rose and realize the difference between looking and seeing. Rose Marie’s Garden Watercolor 7 1⁄2" × 7 1⁄2" (19cm × 19cm) Shape First, Edge Second I rarely sketch my subjects on the canvas or paper in preparation for painting. It is a choice I make that challenges me to work boldly and with confidence. I haven’t always