Just wanted to add that the coolness of these outdoor shadows is thanks to weaker ambient blue light from the sky bouncing all over the place. The shadows are an absence of direct light, but of course light must be bouncing in that region or else the shadow would appear completely black. Most ambient light is from the sky, so the shadows appear bluer, cooler. If the ambient light from the sky was orange, shadows would appear warmer
I'm so thankful I found your channel!! I wish I'd taken art classes from you growing up. I passed up three different chances to take FREE lessons offered to me by artists who thought I had something special. Unfortunately, I didn't believe it, and gave up on going to college for Art (blew a free ride to go to Ringling Bros Art Uni and a guaranteed job at Disney!!!) and went for my other passion - writing - and picked up journalism instead. But my oh my, now I'm 46yrs old having to "teach myself" the basics - color theory, mixing colors, perspective, etc. ... and you know what? I'm LOVING it!! Lol ***So, here's a FREE Lesson - Don't be stubborn, too shy, or think you aren't good enough to live your dreams! You're HERE, watching this wonderful, fabulously explained video! We can do it!*** And being an artist is NOT all (or even *at all* ) about having talent! It's about passion, motivation to learn, and then practice, practice, practice what we're taught! Thank you so much for these lessons, Mrs. Dianne! Blessings!! ❤👩🏻🎨🎨🖌❤
Diane, God bless you. Learned from you more than any full length instructional dvd on the market. You are like David leffel, a calm soul , a master artist.
You are a sweet, delightful, charming, amusing, and skillful teacher! It's wonderful to learn from someone who can get the knowledge from their brain and put it through their speech! Thank you! 🙂
In 1996 I attended your classes in Clarkesville. My two sons had joined the military six months apart and were gone across the ocean. I was a mess. You are such a good teacher. I won't be famous for my art but you gave me something to focus on and I have enjoyed so much drawing, painting using Prisma color pencils. I just happened upon your videos. Like so many years ago, you are still teaching. I am delighted to find you on RU-vid.
Well, well, Elaine! What a treat to meet up with you again on RU-vid. I don't remember your being a mess, but a delightful presence. Welcome aboard on this cyber format!
Thank you SO much for this wonderful and clear instruction. I have struggled with shadows for so long. I finally understand how to make them look real. You are a talented teacher! Thank you again!!
Thank you - I had an old painting with cast shadows that bugged me. I pulled it back out after watching this video - I am going to Re do the road. Thank you again
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction I really did --- I played with some different colors for the foreground shadows and those in the distance too. I feel I can now make some more informed color choices!
Thank you so much my friend, for so generously sharing your vast wealth of knowledge so others to enjoy painting too. You made a complicated subject easily understood
Aha!! Thank you so much for this eye-opening quick tip💡!! I'm still a wee beginner and am muddling my way through (with acrylics). Your QTs are packed with so much valuable instruction, and I also love your teaching style. Thank you!
Dianne. This was an enormously helpful QuickTip. I’m a guilty party of adding black to darken and neutralize. Not any more! Also the three separate examples were so helpful and particularly the last one. Neutral colors are so hard. I’m going to watch it again...and take notes this time. Thank you!
Diane, THIS video made a lightbulb go off for me! After years of painting and struggling with cast shadows, you’ve taught me how to “observe “ them and relay that observation to the canvas. Thank you for your knowledge and excellent way of teaching! ❤️
Thank you painting grandma - this is exceptional, I never knew this formula for painting cast shadows - match the hue, make it darker and cooler, move towards neutral - thanks!
It will be better not to think of this as a formula, but a concept to look for. The concept works because of the way hue responds to light and the absence of light.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your elaborate videos, great tips and making people’s lives better and more meaningful. I am able to paint more thanks to your tips! All the best!
Am just starting acrylics and You are God sent teacher 🙏🏼. You take time to explain so well and with not just one example shows how selfless you are. Thank you. And thank you for everything you do for ppl like us. Lots of love.
This is the BEST demonstration of Cast Shadows I've seen. Now I finally get it! THANK YOU for this invaluable info! I feel like I can practice them now. 🤗
Perfect! And thank you! Today is a gray, non-shadow day, so I will have to wait for the sun!. I painted en plein air a lot about 20 years ago with watercolor and for some reason, I never really thought much about shadow color, or maybe it was that I did not struggle a lot with color. That was also before cataracts and that surgery so I was seeing more clearly. I had used large plastic palettes and was able to have huge variations in what I mixed. I could pick up what I needed without really thinking about it. I will have to look through my old paintings to see if shadow color shows up as a problem. Fast forward through health problems, I have been playing a bit with acrylics lately. I haven't used oils or acrylics since the 80s. At the time I did decorative painting and EVERYTHING was spelled out just how to mix and apply color in every area. That meant that I actually copied a whole lot of others' work and almost everything was imaginative - not realistic and almost no shadows. My watercolors were much different - it was all mine, from what was before me, not photos! Now that I have the great desire to use more opaque paint again, I feel so ignorant. I am having to pay more attention to the videos I watch - and actually paint along with them! By the way, I never noticed your color wheel rim before. Did you cut that from a commercial version? I think it is a wonderful idea although my old wheel has faded. If the printer uses fugitive colors, it doesn't help much.
Thanks for your comment, Kathleen. How we observe determines what we see. If we are looking for just the images themselves, we might ignore the variations of color caused by light and shadow. That there's your first key. I do cut out those irritating centers when I use commercial color wheels. All that stuff color wheel companies put in the centers are misleading in that they cause you to mix color by formula rather than by hue relationship on the wheel. I do have free color wheels on diannemize.com . Click on Free Stuff in the menu. If your printer uses fugitive ink, you might get it printed at some commercial printing place.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Yes - I've had sunshine this morning and taking photos of shadows has been interesting - and what I expected. The scene (out my sewing room window) has always had a violet cast because of so many trees causing shadows. That's not true close up, of course, but in general it is. I live in Portland, Oregon, and one thing I've noticed when painting outside (before the term plein air caught on) was that we have a very blue atmosphere. Years ago my oldest went to the Grand Canyon and I was visiting and watching her work on her photos after she returned. She was changing the turquoise sky to what is more like our French Ultramarine! I asked her why she was doing that. She decided that no one up here would believe the color that the sky really was! I laughed. She no longer does that. Oh, and cataracts... we have had had wildfires out here and the skies were terrible for a long time after one that was too close for comfort. Apparently my eyes got worse then and I had not realized the skies were blue again until I got my first eye fixed! I had been seeing smoky green for at least a year!!!
Barb, to my mind the color wheel is a necessity for the painter. You might benefit from watching other Quick Tips where I show how to use it to think through the mixing of color. You can find the entire list of Quick Tips at ru-vid.comvideos
Thank you for the example. Very helpful as I would not have thought I needed to add cool and warm colors to the shadow. I primarily work in pastel, but am trying to embrace acrylic. I think I would like oil, but don't want to manage it! Thank you again. I'm saving this lesson for sure!!
Once again, perfect timing. I'm about to paint an abstract in moonlight, backlit trees and grass with shadows in the forefront. Your demo has simplified this for me. Now we just have to see if I can apply the principle to a lot of cool neutrals. Thank you so much. I'm a watercolorist and stepping out of my comfort zone to spark some creativity. It's a no fear painting session, taught by a local oil artist. In acrylic no less! But it will be a good learning experience. And I always come home to do it in watercolor. I love your videos. 🎨
It makes me happy to see the color on the tip of the palette knife matches the color of the picture after mixing. By far the best painting tutorial in youtube. Regards and respect for Dianne. I like your accent🙂
This was so helpful - I'm working on the cast shadow of a white ceramic bowl onto a white tablecloth. The wall behind is blue so I'm seeing a lot of greyed down blue - does that make sense? What a challenge!
Im new at painting and no education at all in that area. Im soon 59 years old and want to learn how to paint Im trying to paint forest with all the different green colors in it. I noticed it so hard to get it right, but I really want to learn... but now I google for some info how to get the shadows, the cooler colors.. Thanks a lot!! I have to make a color wheel.. So happy to find you
I don't paint with oils (yet), I am a watercolor enthusiast which is a transparent medium, that works very differently that oil coloes. I also started experimenting with gouache recently. Howeve these tips are universal and would work for watercolor and gouache as well. I know that it is all color theory, but is just wanted to point out that this can be useful for people using other mediums as well! You are a great teacher! Thank you for the lovely tutorial! ☺️
Dianne mize has already provided a wealth of content Her frugal use of the time you'll take achieving the level of expertise to bring the world to life Aww A
This was extremely helpful to me. Sure would like to attach a picture of what I was able to do because of it, but I don't see a way to do it. In any case, it made all the difference in the world and I can't thank you enough for sharing the information with us.
This is my first time seeing one of your videos. I love your teaching style! I'm happy to subscribe and I'm looking forward to watching all your tips! Thank you for this wonderful resource🥰
I hope you are having a good day. If you can demonstrate how can artists produce a metallic shine like the shine you can see on metals or fish sometimes, I will be very grateful . Thank you for all the experience , knowledge and art you’re putting in this work.
There have been other requests for this, too. I will put it on our filming schedule. Since we film these several weeks in advance, it will be late October or early November before it appears on RU-vid. Stay tuned.
