color mixing strategies: contrasting layers, monochromatic mood, impasto textures

Color Mixing Strategies • Painting in Contrasting Layers

• Monochromatic Color Schemes• Impasto Mixing with Knives

Painting in Layers

• Bright underneath• Dull on top

Red over a yellow and green under painting

• Pink/orange underneath• Let it Dry• Dark blue on top• “clouds” are “holes in the sky”• (Georgia O’Keefe watercolor)

• You can let the bottom layer show through

• In this case, the leaves (brown) is the bottom layer

• Orange underneath• Blue on top• You can see one under

the other

• painting on a black background

• painting on an orange background

Rothko

Monochromatic Color schemes

• Monochromatic color schemes create a strong mood

Kandinksy

Monochromatic color = Light/dark, Bright/dull, Warm/cool

varieties of the same hue

Each time of day has its own MOOD

‘white marble’ is not ‘white’

Monet

Picasso’s ‘Blue Period’

Hirsch

Elmer Bischoff

Daniel Rabier

Daniel Rabier

Judith Klain

John Reamer

Eddie Fitzgerald

Kathy Wilson

Pam Pitt

Susan Scannon

impasto painting with knives

Smearing, like butter on toast

Flat, minimal and smooth

Double-Loading and SMEARING 2 COLORS TOGETHER

Thin LINES

hard edged PATTERNS

Press and lift, use the TENSION of the blade

SCRATCHING and scraping

Change the PRESSURE of your hand, create thick and thin in flowing motion

Vincent often worked-out his painting knife strokes in separate ink drawings like this.

Eddie Fitzgerald

sand mixed into the paint (David Miller)

Tom O’Neill

Tom O’Neill

Tom O’Neill

Tom O’Neill

Tom O’Neill

Tom O’Neill

Tom O’Neill