by Kristen O'Neill | May 10, 2022 | Art Lessons
Magical Unicorns Magenta is a magical unicorn. It is the color that really shouldn’t exist. First, let me explain about magenta. Colors, in light, are the visible to humans part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Past red is infrared (on the chart above as IR),...
by Kristen O'Neill | May 3, 2022 | Art Lessons
I love the green of spring. That new growth green is so exciting to me. It took me a while to figure out how to mix spring greens. One day, out of complete frustration, I hauled all my paint to the middle of forest, sat down and mixed until I came across what I was...
by Kristen O'Neill | Apr 26, 2022 | Art Lessons
Why We Paint Water Reflections The last three posts have been how to paint various aspects of water reflections. If you missed them, here are the links to them. From Calm to Choppy: How Water Reflections Act to Surface Changes Water Reflections: Angles and Sizes...
by Kristen O'Neill | Apr 19, 2022 | Art Lessons
This post covers how water reflections are changed by the surface of the water, from calm to choppy waters. Calm Water Let’s start out with the easy one, calm water. In perfectly still water the surface acts like a perfect mirror, with no distortions in the...
by Kristen O'Neill | Apr 12, 2022 | Art Lessons
Creating a painting with water reflections has some basic rules – based on the real world and some simple physics. (Really simple. No need to run away. Honest.) Angle of Reflections in Water Simple answer here. Down. The reflections are heading towards your...
by Kristen O'Neill | Apr 5, 2022 | Art Lessons
Water reflects what is around it. This post focuses on painting the values of those reflections. (“Value” is the light/dark scale.) Reflections Head to the Middle Values Dark Reflections Get Lighter Light Reflections Get Darker Now, if you are scratching...
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