A subscriber asks what does relative color mean and how is it used. Artist/art teacher Dianne Mize explains and demonstrates six examples. www.diannemize.com
This was really fantastic and your way of teaching makes it so interesting. There are so much to learn about colors. Thank you for sharing this with us!!!
That was terrific. I'll use this to help choose backgrounds for sure. I've never understand why one colour will work but another doesn't. thank you very much, Dianne. Very appreciated, as always.
SO helpful, Dianne! Glad to see the relative concept illustrated and really will find the Intensity Color wheel cut out the way you were using it very helpful, too! I find everything on color so interesting! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Thank you so much Dianne, your a gifted artist and generous teacher with compassion. After reading some of the comments I’ll be doing Cracking the Colour code, I’ve also been working with the Munsell wheel, your explanation is seamless
Great! In early January, we hope to have our Academy launched to make Cracking the Color Code and our other courses (current and new ones to come) much easer to do.
Hi, I’m a new painter and I had some difficulties so I came across some of your videos while I was searching for really important topics and I must say you’re a very brilliant and captivating teacher. The way you teach, with so much ease, it feels like you hold the secret key to the world. Lol.. thank you so much for your videos... #subscriber all the way from Nigeria 🇳🇬💕💕
Very helpful and thanks! Fascinating! Always such good teaching. For me, it's a lot to take in and digest. It will certainly be a long time before my decision making will be automatic when applying this to a painting. I will be revisiting this video. Thanks also for the freebie tools too.
Be willing to practice on throw-away sheets of canvas or gessoed card stock. It's the practice - when you are NOT making a painting - that hones your skills.
Another wonderful Quick Tip! Do you think this is intuition, second nature, or planned in a painting? I could see how a still life would be more planned as the set up would "feel" right. But, in your historical examples, and even with the Schmid example, do you think they consciously thought about how to guide the eye through the composition, color and value contrasts? Or did it just happen because, again, it felt right?
Well thought out question, Sheryl. All three are true. With the artist, these things work just like the musical principles work for a musician: we learn these skills one at a time, practice them until we no longer have to think about them to know how to use them, then the planning and implementing into a painting is where it all comes together--some conscious thinking, some second-nature (because that's our uniqueness) and a lot of intuition. Same principle hold true with a race car driver, a ballet dancer, a figure skater, even a chef.
You explain thoroughly the tips that help me become a better painter. I understand and I can put these tips into practise.This I am greatly appreciative for all you do to help me.
Just found your channel, this is awesome. I love to draw but have never felt confident about my painting and color choosing abilities. I've downloaded a bunch of your free helper tools and will go to my local printers to have them printed professionally so that I can use them to help me improve my painting and will start binge'ing on your videos. Thank you so much!
I just found this channel a few days ago and am so thrilled at the level of Dianne's instruction. What an amazing exercise. I would love to know if she is using acrylic or oil paint. Thanks so much!
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction, thanks so much Dianne! Guess I should dig out my oils --they've been packed away for well over 15 years. After watching many of your videos, I now know why I gave up and packed them away --I have had absolutely no technical training in colors in any way, shape or form. I am so thrilled you created this channel. Thank you again for sharing what you know!
Your color tips are so helpful because you consistently use the structure of color to illustrate the concepts. I now have a structure and practice techniques to inform my color mixing unlike the teachers I have been working with. Thank you for being so structured in your teaching. I am beginning to not flounder with paint what you see with a very limited palette.
I simply can not see, in the first example, that the brown is the same hue OR the same intensity, sorry! I think I am not understanding what Dianne is saying. Does this mean that same hue same value makes a higher intensity?
Begin with color itself: hue, value, intensity. Every hue has the potential to become at least 5 degrees of intensity and every one of those degrees has the potential to become at least 8 values. Also, it will help to learn to call the colors you see by their hue names. For example, a brown is a low intensity orange or red. The value of what most people call brown is in the dark range. A light value of what most people call brown becomes what most people call tan, or even beige, but that doesn't tell us anything about it's hue. When we can train our eyes to see the hues of low intensity colors, then we know how to mix them.
In the Studio Art Instruction oh my goodness THIS is what I have been trying to figure out for ages! First, that intensity and value are not the same, then, from an answer to an earlier question, that intensity is really saturation-there is more pigment (for example yellow) in the cad yellow paint? Cad yellow light has more yellow pigment than yellow ochre, so cad yellow light would be considered a more intense yellow? (Hope I got that right!)
I know I'm like a broken record, but I can't get enough of your videos. I do have a question tho unrelated to color. I completed an oil painting and after it dried, I see in dim light when I look at it sideways, there are 2 vertical lines visible in the sky. I didn't use a lot of oil so they can't be drips- and they're perfectly flat and vertical. Do you know what might have caused that? And, can I correct it?
Marie, without seeing it, I can't be sure, especially since the areas are vertical. If you used Titanium white with vertical strokes, it could be a normal "sink" where the oil drops down leaving pigment to surface while drying. In that case, once it's thoroughly dry, if you oil out (Quick Tip 222), that should correct it.
All colors can be lightened or darkened. Think about color as a combination of hue, value and the saturation of the hue (intensity or chorma). When changing one color to another, the first consideration is that the color you mix into it is of the same value. For that, learn to see the progressions of values - light to dark - possible with each hue.
Cracking the Color Code is just that. It uses the thinking process of the Munsell system, but rather than Munsell's color wheel. I use the traditional one, mainly because Munsell's skips over the secondary, orange. However, Cracking the Color Code shows you how to consider the fluidity of the hues, using the wheel to manage the intensities and how to read and translate the values.
When your hand went in front of the yellow squares, at the beginning of the video, there was pale violet squares that appreared. Aren't the eyes amazing things!
Thank you so much, can you make a video more advance of this one? I mean this 6 step and where to use them For example step 5-6 for reflected. I would like to buy it ofcourse not looking for anything free 🙏🏻
I have made a number of video lessons on color, available at diannemize.com and very shortly will have a two courses available on Thinkific. Stay tuned for an announcement.
Thanks for great video. You said a shadow on an object will lower the intensity of the object if I recall correctly. Does that mean the value will remain the same?
Dear Mam The strips u use to test colour after mixing the shade a d see near colour wheel it is closure to warm or cool colour that tester is made with which paper cartridge, Ivory, or any paper. Plz tell me Thanks Rims1
I know the values by having studied them through observation for many, many years--as I continue to do today--and always will. One never learns it all. The more deeply we study values and their behavior and what causes them, the more we discover that we didn't know before.
Color saturation has to do with the degree of hue in a color. A fully saturated color is pure hue, like hansa yellow or cadmium red light. When a complement is added to that hue, it reduces its saturation, making it more neutral. For example, yellow ochre light is a less saturated version of yellow whereas cadmium yellow light is a more saturated version.
The best way to find the answer to this is to study lions. If you go to pixabay.com/images/search/lions/ , you will see that the colors vary according to what kind of light there is as well as the local color of the lion. In addition, you might watch my Quick Tips 238, 253 and a whole lot of others dealing with color.
hello, what is the difference between Hue and value ? all of a sudden I am confused. and with your "intelectuel " approach are you not take away the spontanaity ?the exciting drive ?
Every color has three parts: hue, value and intensity. The hue is what we know to be the name of the color--yellow, orange, red, etc., the value is the degree of lightness or darkness of that hue; the intensity is the degree of saturation of the hue. Now, about my intellectual approach: We give ourselves freedom to create when we know what we are doing. We limit our creative potential when we don't know the options. Why not get a copy of my book Finding Freedom to Create from Amazon. It explains the whole process.
thanks a lot for your rapid answer. I followed your advice and your book is ordered. I am looking forward to read it. Your tutorials are very good, although I don't comprehend them always. you give information about colors , what art school is not doing, a real shame. some time ago I saw your .demo, how to paint a rooster and now unfortunately, I can't find that demo any more, please be kind to send me the link, thanks in advance.
Hi, I’m a new painter and I had some difficulties so I came across some of your videos while I was searching for really important topics and I must say you’re a very brilliant and captivating teacher. The way you teach, with so much ease, it feels like you hold the secret key to the world. Lol.. thank you so much for your videos... #subscriber all the way from Nigeria 🇳🇬💕💕
