Effectively, the blue is the shadowing, which is a good way to begin. Personally, depending upon the predominant colour of the finished artwork, I mix a shadow colour using two primaries and a complimentary colour. In this case, I would've used a hint of a red-biased hue to slightly warm the shadow mix.
Alla prima means wet-on-wet and has nothing to do with not mixing colours. It just means that the next layer of paint is applied on a still wet previous layer.
This is the reason why I use violet/purple for shadows in skin tone. Purple desaturates the orange, making it brownish which looks natural. Using blue as a shadow makes the skin tone a bit green which looks weird.
The blue makes it look like a very young lemon. The purple makes the shadow more brownish and like it’s an older, just over ripe lemon. And the yellows you chose to go with them of course. I think the colors you choose depends on what kind of lemon you are trying to convey.
I don't think ur going to answer because im 11 months late, but if anyone can help id really appreciate it. The question is, do you *ALWAYS* use purple or blue as an undertone or only when It's a light/warm color on top? Like yellow here for example.
Complementary means: two colors that together produce white light, red and green produce yellow, red and cyan produce white light, a RGB LED can demonstrate it. In subtrative, the colored filter will let the frequencies that compose what we see as its color pass and block the complementary ones, the area will appear black or change to another hue. There are more things about it, but in painting I prefer to use the uniform saturation concept. If you observe the object, the feeling is of seeing the same color in the area even though the light coming from the source is diminishing. To replicate it I use black paint and correct the chroma putting more hue to create the shadow. If the context brings another color reflected, then it is another case.
I’ve been trying really hard to narrow down to specifically what makes portraits so freaking difficult? I think tricking my head into truly seeing is as anything else but a face. Like just seeing shapes, an object, not individual features, and/or trying to draw it upside down, I think this will… well honestly it probably won’t do a thing to help, but it sounded good right?
I heard something similar (well, sort of) about painting people once. If the are far away and you’re trying to paint every detail, of the face for instance, it looks so much less realistic than just painting the shadows of features. Thanks for so much useful stuff!
I’m glad you let me know this. Because I never use black because I was told not to. But hey the legal thing, plus probably having my paintings look better, it’s just a win for me all the way around! Also I used to think I was much more of a rebel then I’m finding out I actually am, which is kind of disappointing.
When you say “when you do it sparingly”, what is the ‘it’ you are referring to? Using complimentary colors? Thanks, I watch tons of painting videos and from yours, I’m actually learning really helpful things I can actually use!
Apples aren’t red, they contains hundreds of colors. By layering the blue, yellow and red, you get shades of purple, orange, green and brown where all the colors layer in different levels of intensity. That’s the beauty of this method.
Ever since I started watching your videos, I started underpainting my watercolors instead of mixing them. I’ve been so pleased with the results. The paintings look more interesting because you can see more than just the two colors.
Sunlight is not yellow. If you need proof, what color is snow? But i like the way you're working the shadow into the form it's being cast from. I've always created my objects THEN created the shadows and that's a problematic approach that fails as often as it succeeds.
Love this! I've been avoiding painting water since i just can't get the shading and ripples right and these techniques are so helpful. Love your content!
I bought a cheap block of watercolor paper that was like this. It did this when I'd use a lot of water but when I did local strokes with less water in the brush it was fine.
I have a question: after having made some paintings with this advice, I was wondering if there could be more than two undertones, maybe three, if there is an extra, artificial light that shines a bit different?
I recently found out about this channel and the tips for these types of painting are really helpful! tried it myself and it works MAGNIFICENTLY! thanks a lot! :)
For me I use both black and colors because it really shows the shadeing and (I forgot what I was about to say but pretend like I said something useful😍🙏)
