Verbatim what I said. It makes the leaves look weird with the pink in my opinion but the yellow make the berries look brighter and highlights the leaves sooo I like that one better.
as someone who grew up on a blueberry farm: red! blueberries often look red when they’re ripening, so the painting looks very natural! the same goes for the leaves- beauty is the fire-y red of a blueberry field in fall as the sun sets.
Thought I’d like the red but the final product had an interesting variation. No fav. Try three or four colors. You are helping me and I appreciate it. Im starting to paint at 61 years old and could never quite get it down. ☺️
I've heard of a method where you mix your base colour and add a tiny bit to every colour you use to make them all work together! I guess that could create a somewhat similar effect.
@@Moo-2310that's definitely a technique that you can use. Requires a decent understanding of color theory though. It's best to stick to triads or quads. And shading with the complimentary color is also a neat trick
@@anmitsuu-chan8967I do it with acrylics a little bit. It's usually easier to just add the color in while painting the base though, due to opaqueness. You can glaze with acrylics later to soften/even things out or add the hue you're looking for
The gold makes it appear more alive, brighter and happy whilst the crimson gives a sense of nostalgia, density and familiarity it’s so interesting how under painting could have such differing effects
There are two subjects in art that are not taught as much as they should be: drawing and underpainting. Drawing is the fundamental skill of art. It's the factor that so many skip over in their urge to paint. Underpainting also can take on different character too, as in this example. A fun exercise is to paint in several glaze layers the way prints are made by printmakers. First is the drawing, then shadow layer(s), then yellows, then reds, and finally blues. I did a particular river scene so many times by this method, that I got magnificent clarity and transparency, while getting several varied effects of subject that I wanted as well. The colors in the finished work were like looking through a gemstone. It takes a lot of time to do that method, but my word, the effects! Anyway, let me not ramble on. Nice video... thanks for posting. 🎉
Love your thoughts. Yes I fully agree with your sentiments and knowledge, thank you for sharing. As for the lovely tutorial I love both sides for different reasons. They both have merits, just depends on the person observing, which they prefer. As I say I love both sides and thank you for this excersise. I've used underpainting and glazing many times in oil, but never had much success in water colour. It's a hard task master and requires your patience to let things dry before racing ahead I think. Glazing gave me a stunning effect when painting a bunch of grapes in oils. Also started with underpainting. With that I found much depended on the type of the paint. I used only transparent colours. The opaque either granulate or go muddy and don't work so well, particularly if working wet on wet. A lovely excersise to get us thinking, thank you 🤗
Love both❤ each tells different vibes and auras, the yellow one lookes like its a summer afternoon. The red one is like a twilight aura vibe that the sun already sets but still have that red sky shine. Its very beautiful both have dramatic vibes.
Under painting each side a different color is a total hack to get natural Hughes and lighting effects! Like the color variation looks purposeful to me, even though it was just for a demonstration. It’s still created a beautiful piece of art.
Under painting is really cool too because part of the reason that it makes your colors look good or bad some colors don’t work well together, but the reason it tends to make your art look good is because it makes your colors cohesive. They all are now connected under a similar schematic structure.
Love this! Blueberries actually have some yellower tones and some reddish tones as they ripen (sometimes even on different parts of the same berry), it would be interesting to see this used for that effect!
Funny the split between the under painting actually gives the finished product a look of sun kissed on one side and shadow on the other. They go very well together.
Red makes me think of peak season berries. It's summer. Hot out, maybe you're enjoying them in a picnic or bbq. And they are the sweetest and yummiest ones, but ever so fleeting. Yellow reminds me of start of the season berries. It's early spring. The winter chill is still in the air and the blubes aren't the sweeter, but they sure are delicious. And they pop in your mouth just right. You missed them and the nostalgia hit makes these sooo good.
I feel like if you covered the underpainting entirely, we wouldn't easily notice the sharp difference in color, and instead it would give the impression of shading and lighting. I feel like it's sunset wherever these berries are. This would probably be an interesting way to do all the shading and lighting of a piece, and then you paint everything in without thinking about lighting as much.
I love it with both! I imagine the sun shining on the fruit through a window where there may be red light reflecting off of some object outside the window… or sun shining on the berries through a stained glass window.
I love it exactly the way it is. I really don’t see any hard line at the end. The background suggests, to me, and extremely closeup view of blueberries on a day with a bright sky with pink streaks in it.
The yellow side makes me think just ripe, bright, and cottagecore and the red side looks like a juicy delicious piece of fruit perfect for fall or during the sunset and is very warm and cozy
The yellow side has a more lively tone to it while the red truly shows the vibrancy of the subject, which in this case, is a handful of blueberries. Either way, they look good. Your painting is amazing.
