Adventures are calling you! Time to get OUT THERE and have some fun. Swimming, boating and hiking for sure but at some point you will want to sit down and Paint.
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| The Beaver Den - Colours in an all GREEN WORLD |
The wonderful part of summer is that flowers are bright and beautiful. The mountains are shining in the sun and the trees are no longer bare. Everything is encased in a sea of Green. It’s wonderful!
But that GREEN can be awful!!!
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| Beaver Den on the Island - Surrounded by GREENS |
Everything is green. So how do you find your way. It's all GREEN.
*** Here is a link to my YouTube video that further explores this topic: Finding Patterns of Colour in an ALL GREEN LANDSCAPE.
I just came back from a camping trip and and of course I was encased in the GREEN World. As I painted a little island that held a beaver den, ways to fight the GREEN began to emerge.
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| Pencil lines to find the main shapes and patterns - changes in values |
Here’s how I Attacked THE GREEN’S:
I looked for subtle changes of values. These signal a change in vegetation.
I looked for patterns. Those value changes make shapes. Those are my keys to see patterns that are different colours. As I sketch in the scene with my pen, the shapes created around the value changes are more prominent. Of course you can do this all in pencil. But you know me, I like to get my pen in there too.
Ink Sketch - Notice the different shapes that match the different values of green I pushed the colours. If a value is light green, I add yellow to it to make it even lighter. A glaze of Colbalt Teal Blue cools it but keeps it light and airy. If the value is a mid-value I add hints of reds and blues to it. Red warms it up, blues cool it down. Thus creating more colours in the scene but still keeping with feeling of green.
I thought about colour temperature. Some shapes are warm while others are cold. You can see in my picture the low bushes are facing the sun and have a warm airy feeling. While the taller bushes are effectively shaded by their height. These are cold. I look for those spots throughout the picture.
Adding the Colour - notice the shapes have different colours of Green I introduced new colours. I dropped a touch of red into the shadow areas. No, there was no red there. But I always seem to feel that there should be a touch of red when I am painting so much green. (This is a me thing. Do you have a 'me thing'?) I repeated the red as more of a rusty brown in the background foliage and in several spots in the shadow areas. My own rule is it needs to be in 3 spaces minimum so it 'blends in' to the painting. I dropped in some blues - the sky, the water, and that loggy, looking rock in the middle. I used some purples in the shadows mixed with the red and one of the blues I used. Thus keeping the colours cohesive and yet adding a new colour.
Finished Picture feels green but in fact has blue, red, purple and yellow
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