Quick Tip 364 - Roles of Color 

That was the best explanation I have ever heard on how you select the colors you're going to use!! Thank you!!

WOW! What a gifted teacher you are! Thank you for your generosity. I look forward to your videos each week and am finally understanding how to use color. So very thankful for you!!!

If there’s one thing I can say that I’ve overlooked in all my years of painting but learned from you over the past few years, it’s about value and matching values when mixing paint ! It never dawned on me to make sure values are equal when mixing colors . This has been invaluable (no pun intended) information for me ! I would’ve went straight to the hansa yellow out of the tube ! I just love your lessons! They’re so chock full of information ❤️

Dianne- you are an amazing teacher. I have learned so much from you. Thank you.

When I need help when I plan a painting I know who to turn to for sound advice, thanks again Dianne.

Loved it. I like my colours to all be complimentory to eachother and the method you are using gives that effect. Tks

Awesome teaching. I was hanging on every word, thanks again DIanne, I'm still a novice at this topic

Thank you Dianne, you always bring problems & difficulties back into the realm of logic. I find, more often than not when viewing your tutorials, I slap my forehead with my palm & exclaim " ahhhh, that’s how it works". You truely are a treasure.

Wow, a rich Quick Tip - thank you Dianne!!

Dianne your passion of teaching is uniques ! Thank you for your dedication. My sunsets/ sunrises paintings definitely would look much better from now on. Best wishes to you and your team.

Another excellent tip, Dianne. Thank you so much. I also wanted you to know that I just purchased your book "Finding Freedom To Create" and it's absolutely THE best book of its kind I've ever read. So helpful and so eloquent. Thank you for sharing your expertise and knowledge.

I love your videos and teaching style. Thank you so much Dianne.

Thank you for the videos. I also thank you for your clear english and the way you speak. Best regards.

Thank you so much for your great lessons. They helped me a lot.

That was simply stunning 🤩- you’re a star ⭐️ xx

The bad thing is, I didn't find you until a month ago, the great thing is, my paintings will improve so much from here on out! Thanks Dianne, you are a gem!

Many thanks for your lesson! This is a great system to work by!

Excellent summary on a complex subject. Your teaching and explanation skills amplify your knowledge as an artist, Dianne! Well done, again!

Dear Dianne thank you for your teaching it’s so helping,

Thank you so much 🙏

Thank you Diane. This is very helpful!

Thank you very much, great explanation of colour harmony!

Thank you, this is just what I needed to learn before doing next picture.

Thanks very much for your generosity. I understand more about the hue, the value…

You have such great knowledge and I’m so grateful that you share it with all of us. Thank you so much for that 💙💜🌅. I’m always inspired to start practicing right after I watch one of your lessons. If only I could, lol 😝 mama duty calls

You are phantastic. Thanks a lot!

what a wonderful teacher thankyou

thanks so much you explain so well and it’s such a help Appreciate you sharing so generously

Excellent, thanks.

Thank you Dianne. I might be brave enough to attempt a sunset now!

Another useful and well -presented lesson

Wow amazing art work my friend ☺️👍 keep it up your good work ♥️♥️🎨🇵🇭

Dianne,Thank you so much for your helpful tips & explaining to the core! You are an amazing art instructor!Can you explain how to add volume and texture, shading in the snow filled areas of an winter painting, so that it doesn't look flat! Thank you🙏

Danke!

Thanks so much for your Art Instruction. I would like to point out one of the more profound moments in the lesson at 15:20 when you list the four classes of color: mother, compliment for desaturation, warm toner, cool toner. With this in mind you maneuver paint mixes into whatever color you need to imitate. Beautiful theory and excellent discussion! However, I have issue with using ultramarine as a cooler since it is a warm blue. Of course, Ultramarine is cool if compared to red or yellow. In the theory of split compliments, warm and cool primaries allow you to mix high saturation secondaries, but you can get away with using any-old primary if you want low saturation colors, as in landscapes. A nearly pure blue primary (e..g. cobalt) or cool blue (e.g., cerulean) would be a a better choice for cooling theoretically. In your situation, Ultramarine, with its fair amount of red, probably intensifies the red of the lightened red mix. Cerulean (yellowish blue) would probably de-saturate the red as it leans toward green, red's compliment. Cobalt and some Pthalo Blues are closer to pure primaries and have a role on the palette for that reason alone.

Wonderful tutorial Dianne. Thank you! Can you give some tips for value gradation of acrylic paint colours on the palette to keep them open longer, please.

Thank you!!!

Thank you Diane! I'm wondering about painting a sunset/sunrise visible behind a few tall bare winter trees. Would one paint the sky first (with all its gradations and hue variations), or the trees? The trees are a much darker value and have several branches going in different directions. Generally I'd paint the darker values first, but would that be advisable in this situation?

Thank you so much . Could you pls share some reflects on abstract painting.

I have a photo of roses in a vase that to want to turn into a still life picture. The original photo is against a white wall which is a very bland and non descript. I want to change this but I'm struggling to find a background colour or colours, that would complement the roses. The roses are a pale pink ( leans to a warm pink). Have you any tips that could help with this.

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Lots of valuable info here… but why no medium in gradation?

why your exposed oil paint does not dry, mine always dry in 1 day or films in 6hours

Thank you! How would one make a fluorescent color? Specifically fluorescent pink? 😀