There are lots of questions on how to create variations of colors in painting. Artist/Art teacher Dianne Mize shows how to attain the skill needed to create gradations.
Thanks, Dianne for talking about and demonstrating the various aspects of a subject such as gradation. So often something like that gets into one limited lump for me and it helps to break it down, so that this skill can be used in a variety of ways. Also, it help those of us who need to be told repeatedly. LOL
Thanks for the tips! This video came at the perfect time for me. I am just now learning how to oil paint. Taking Oil painting 1 at university & this was one thing that I was struggling with
Thank you for this video. Just that one little section, in which you accidentally backed up too far and made the dark blue too light, made me realize one of my own errors. Then you fixed it with just a clean brush, which again was so easy and effective. 💗
This is excellent and very helpful. Question re last example showing intense red neutralized by the green, if one were trying to maintain the same value while gradating toward neutral, would you have added white into the blending progression to yield a neutral of the same value as the initial red?
This one is tricky, Grant. White contributes to neutrality, so yes, but carefully. Ideally, one would add a lighter tube color of a lighter value, but those are rarely available.
Dear Dianne, watching this tip and also the previous video on luminosity , and your post on how to change a blah photo to a pleasing painting, I understand that we can change colors of source to create a more expressive painting . Am I right ? By the way I feel addicted to see you every Wednesday now . Loves.
I've had trouble with this, thanks for the great demo. Your quick tips are so helpful! Do you ever use a mop brush to blend? I'm wondering how this is done. It never seems to work for me.
I don't find the mop brush especially effective for blending. I do use it to soften edges by gently sweeping it over the edge areas a couple of times. Perhaps this would make a good quick tip.
Hi Dian, Thank you so for sharing your valuable knowledge with us. I have a question about this video. Don't you think we need consider the temprature of the color for smooth blending!?..as it seems to me that green and blue are not blending well because yellow is sticking out due to its warm nature comparing to the blue.
Blending is a technique so any two hues, values and/or intensities can be blended so that they gradate one into another. Think about technique as a skill that makes something happen with materials.
Harry, can you be a bit more specific. Are you asking for shapes of foliage or tree trunks with limbs, twigs, etc? Are there particular tree shapes, such as conifers or oaks or maples or palms, etc? What about seasons of the year? Colors in Spring or Summer or Winter or Fall? What about weather? Or time of day? See where I'm going with this?
Joanne, it is a Sienna pochade box available from Blick Art Materials. Mine is over ten years old, one of the first Siennas made. They have a couple of sizes to choose from. Here's the link: www.dickblick.com/products/sienna-plein-air-pochade-boxes/?fromSearch=%2Fsearch%2F%3Fq%3Dsienna%2520pochade
You said higher the tinting strength less colour it will take to turn neutral. Is that true? It is a bit confusing. In one video you explained greater the tinting strength more colour it will take to shift the hue.
Tinting strength is the strength of the hue. You proportion all mixtures according to their tinting strength. If I said "more" for shifting the hue, I said it backwards for which I apologize. Please give me the Quick Tip number where I did that so we can make a correction.
Lol I’m trying to do this with acrylics and it’s driving me crazy, I can’t mix fast enough to blend before it dries😂. Just add 20yrs experience I guess!
Acrylic paintings often keep handing a very fine mist sprayer filled with water and make a habit of keeping the paint misted while working. Check out Roger Bansemer's videos on RU-vid.
