How to Simplify Colors for Painting 

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Makes you wonder what else you might be missing! 🤔it's hard to know what you don't know, right? We're constantly pointing people to a complete education with proper guidance, constructive feedback, etc. so that you can eliminate those blindspots and have a completely solid foundation. Quick workshops or RU-vid videos (and even art courses with different teachers) can be super helpful but often lead to a patchwork education. Food for thought! ~ Daniel

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Glad to hear that! As you continue practicing, especially when color-matching, you will start to see them and you won’t be able to unsee them! ~ Daniel

😂 thank you Mark!

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Hey Max, definitely! So it’s all relative. And in that relativity you want to start with the overarching relationships. The most prominent relationship is light and shadow. Overall, to me, the light appears warmer than the shadows (if only slightly). I find this by approximating the colors. It can help to squint your eyes or let your eyes dart around the image to see what color impression you get. Once you have that distinction, you can take the next step deeper. Within the lights, some areas are warmer or cooler than others. You are free to paint those subtle variations in temperature as you please, BUT be mindful not to go so extreme as to ruin the overarching relationship between the light and the shadow. This will help you stay within certain bounds to maintain a strong first impression in your painting. Let me know if that helps. This is definitely an area that requires a lot of practice. As you keep trying to capture those relationships you’ll get better and better at spotting them. That’s what happened for me, as I explained in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-diwD3ykRs74.html ~ Daniel

@@evolveartist thanks Daniel! That Was a great answer that helps me a lot!!

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We have considered it! But let me first explain that while we technically offer a traditional painting program, it would be more accurate to say that we offer a program that teaches the fundamentals for painting in general, and we use oil paint to teach those fundamentals because they are the best medium to learn with. What this means is that even though our students finish our program being able to create realistic oil paintings, the education that they are truly receiving is the fundamentals of art making, which seamlessly applies to many other mediums (including digital). You wouldn't be the first student to join our program who's more interested in digital than oil painting, knowing that you'd finish the program better equipped as a digital artist as well as traditional. I can name a couple students who used their oil painting portfolios to get into the @Gnomon School, another student who is a professional 3D artist and has significantly improved the quality of their work through our program, and a few more students who tried their hand at digital painting for their first time (after going through the foundation program) and coming out with almost identical results to their oil paintings. So, we have thoughtfully considered it, but because our foundation program is so solid I can't see us offering a digital painting program any time soon. The concepts we teach apply seamlessly to digital, and you'd only be missing out on the application side of digital painting in our traditional painting program. Hope that helps! Great question 😊 ~ Daniel

@@evolveartist Thanks for answering. Yeah, that was what often trips me up as often as the art itself. The application side of digital painting is surprisingly hard. Because you don't know what you don't know, like everything else.

@@Urza26 It can be a bit of learning curve to get comfortable with all the tools that digital platforms provide. I've been able to make do with picking up more efficient ways of applying things as I go. Having the foundations allows me to ask the right questions, which I can then search and find the answers for if I can't find or can't figure out how to use the tool needed to create what I intend. And there are some apps that do a wonderful job of simulating traditional creating, like procreate, which are easier to learn and allow you to naturally find the tools you need to fulfill your creative intentions.

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