{"id":114,"date":"2018-12-07T12:39:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T19:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesbear.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2018-12-19T13:02:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:02:33","slug":"color-and-light-paint-and-pigments-chapter-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesbear.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Color and Light: Paint and Pigments (Chapter 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Warm Underpainting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paint underneath the painting with a wash of a warm color&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>It forces you to cover the background with opaques, forcing you to make mixing decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Most helpful for blue\/green paintings&#8211;the warm bits peeking through make the greens\/blues sparkle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jerrysartarama.com\/blog\/images\/2014\/06\/blog-underpainting-1.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for warm underpainting\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sky Panels:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sky panel is a surface prepared with a sky gradation as a base layer for future painting. (Basically, you paint the sky first, and then come back later to paint everything else once the sky is dried.)<\/p>\n<p>Helpful for describing intricate details against a light sky, and when your chief interest is the complex, middle-ground tracery.<\/p>\n<p>You can prepare backgrounds in advance because clear skies are fairly standard and predictable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Limited Palettes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go on a color diet! It leads to a more harmonious effect.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-s1jbYgS3qGw\/VamSbhoY9jI\/AAAAAAAAcAQ\/lx2z9VcBc4Q\/s400\/Catskill%2BRoadhouse.sm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This painting was made with only titanium white, pyrrole red, ultramarine blue, and burnt sienna.<\/p>\n<p>3 reasons to do this:<\/p>\n<p>more harmonious, it forces you out of color-mixing habits, and they&#8217;re compact and portable.<\/p>\n<p>Make color wheel tests to preview the range of possibilities with a limited palette. Try using one full-chroma color with two weaker colors from across the center of the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mud Debate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beware of Mud&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some only use primary pigments laid over each other to transparently achieve all other colors. &#8220;Overmixing makes color muddy sometimes, especially when more than three colors are used.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mud is a Myth&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Others say there&#8217;s no such thing as a muddy color mixture. Either you&#8217;ve mixed the right color or you haven&#8217;t. The dullness\/muddiness comes from poor value organization. It doesn&#8217;t matter how you come to achieve a mixture.<\/p>\n<p>Gurney&#8217;s opinion: more paintings suffer from the &#8220;fruit salad disease&#8221; of too much pure color rather than from murky mud. The cure for either problem is good value organization&#8211;good planning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm Underpainting: Paint underneath the painting with a wash of a warm color&#8230;. It forces you to cover the background with opaques, forcing you to make mixing decisions. Most helpful for blue\/green paintings&#8211;the warm bits peeking through make the greens\/blues sparkle. Sky Panels: Sky panel is a surface prepared with a sky gradation as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-colorjournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesbear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesbear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesbear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesbear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesbear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesbear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"http:\/\/jesbear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesbear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesbear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesbear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}