Skip Woods Videos : Secrets of Color - Hue Contrast: DVD excerpt from Skip Lawrence for Artists

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Secrets of Color - Hue Contrast: DVD excerpt from Skip Lawrence for Artists

www.cheapjoes.com -- Welcome to Artist Palette Productions at Cheap Joe's Art Stuff {This video is an excerpt of Skip Lawrence's video from "The Secrets of Color" available for purchase at Cheap Joe's Art Stuff.} ************* In this instructional series called Contrast of Color Properties, one of my favorites is contrast of hue. These are the brightest colors you would have on your palette. The idea is that you will contrast these brightest colors for your expressive purposes. When would you use these? If you looked into the woods and what you felt was not ominous, but a celebration of all the colors of fall (even if it wasn't fall), you could enrich your painting with these colors so that your it was about a celebration. When would you do it? Anytime you felt there was really exciting subject matter that warranted these bright colors. The "how" is not to think in terms of light and dark, but to think in terms of orange, next to yellow, next to green, next to blue. Keep thinking of your colors throughout the whole process. This painting for example was in response to a trip to Boone, NC. For those of you that have not been to Boone it's in the mountains and the roads to get there are somewhat tricky but always beautiful. I simply thought in terms of "If I want to express this, what would be one way to do it?" By making these colors contrast in hue. Here's another example of hue contrast with mysterious woods. There seem to be a lot of pure colors here, but there are ...

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