Comments on: Colors in Nature and Meaning of Colors IV http://www.arted4life.com/art-is-everywhere/colors-in-nature-and-meaning-of-colors-4 Blog about Art that can be found Everywhere, in Everything Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Evoltage http://www.arted4life.com/art-is-everywhere/colors-in-nature-and-meaning-of-colors-4/comment-page-1#comment-1015 Evoltage Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:18:06 +0000 http://www.arted4life.com/art-impressions/colors-in-nature-and-meaning-of-colors-4#comment-1015 The white photos are my favorite. The owl and the whiteout are really cool. Thanks for sharing your insight. The white photos are my favorite. The owl and the whiteout are really cool. Thanks for sharing your insight.

]]> By: Marilyn http://www.arted4life.com/art-is-everywhere/colors-in-nature-and-meaning-of-colors-4/comment-page-1#comment-984 Marilyn Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:15:44 +0000 http://www.arted4life.com/art-impressions/colors-in-nature-and-meaning-of-colors-4#comment-984 These have been wonderful and extremely informative posts. I am saving them for future reference. I did not realize that brown can stimulate the appetite. Suppose that is why I love chocolate? LOL Thanks for your comments, Ruth. We can learn so much from each other. These have been wonderful and extremely informative posts. I am saving them for future reference. I did not realize that brown can stimulate the appetite. Suppose that is why I love chocolate? LOL Thanks for your comments, Ruth. We can learn so much from each other.

]]> By: Ruth Read http://www.arted4life.com/art-is-everywhere/colors-in-nature-and-meaning-of-colors-4/comment-page-1#comment-976 Ruth Read Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:46:23 +0000 http://www.arted4life.com/art-impressions/colors-in-nature-and-meaning-of-colors-4#comment-976 This is so nice. I really like the way you put this together. This is very informative. It is interesting that when I painted snow I had to use so much French Ultramarine Blue to reflect the sky. But the great thing about snow, it reflects all the colors around so any brilliant sunset or sunrise can reflect off the snow and be whatever you want. So white is like a chameleon in a painting. Also many artist use it as an under painting. I have read books on how to do an under painting, and they basically use a lot of shading with various shades of white. Then when they put a thin layer of color they can build up a brilliant, luminous color that seems to have a glow from within. That is how I painted my peacock head and neck. Scientists have discovered that a peacock has no color. The feathers vibrate and reflect off each other and you see the reflection or vibration that your mind calls a color. So what I did; I got this from a book, is; I painted a couple of coats of white letting each coat dry. I used a drying medium so I could paint on it again in a few days. Let each coat dry before painting another coat. Then I used turquoise mixed with a medium and put on a very thin coat of color. I slowly build up the color over a week or two. I use various colors. One layer turquoise, the next layer might be viridian. I build the shaded area with Prussian blue. I think I also did a complete layer with Prussian blue. I also used some dioxazine Purple in the shading. That method is how I also build a beautiful eye; of course using the colors that I have decided the eye should be. (Ira’s pelican eye) This is also why my paintings can take as long as a few months to complete. I have had a few that took a year. But it is worth the wait. (My Giraffe painting) Two of my very favorite books that I have, and can’t live without are: Drawing and painting animals by Edward Aldrich, and Painting the faces of wildlife. I bought them on Amazon and read them continually for about a month. That is when I took the book to a teacher and asked her to show me how to mix the paint. I said all the paints are listed but not an measurement. So she also taught me how to look at color. I might mention also that the teacher said she does not paint this way but we read the instructions and basically it was the mixing of the paint I needed to know. Once I got that, I was off and painting. The book was so good with step by step, I can paint anything. I think Edward Aldrich is my favorite author. I now have read so many books that I incorporate things from all the books and have a style that is my own. This is so nice. I really like the way you put this together. This is very informative. It is interesting that when I painted snow I had to use so much French Ultramarine Blue to reflect the sky. But the great thing about snow, it reflects all the colors around so any brilliant sunset or sunrise can reflect off the snow and be whatever you want. So white is like a chameleon in a painting.
Also many artist use it as an under painting. I have read books on how to do an under painting, and they basically use a lot of shading with various shades of white. Then when they put a thin layer of color they can build up a brilliant, luminous color that seems to have a glow from within. That is how I painted my peacock head and neck.
Scientists have discovered that a peacock has no color. The feathers vibrate and reflect off each other and you see the reflection or vibration that your mind calls a color. So what I did; I got this from a book, is; I painted a couple of coats of white letting each coat dry. I used a drying medium so I could paint on it again in a few days. Let each coat dry before painting another coat. Then I used turquoise mixed with a medium and put on a very thin coat of color. I slowly build up the color over a week or two. I use various colors. One layer turquoise, the next layer might be viridian. I build the shaded area with Prussian blue. I think I also did a complete layer with Prussian blue. I also used some dioxazine Purple in the shading.

That method is how I also build a beautiful eye; of course using the colors that I have decided the eye should be. (Ira’s pelican eye)

This is also why my paintings can take as long as a few months to complete. I have had a few that took a year. But it is worth the wait. (My Giraffe painting)
Two of my very favorite books that I have, and can’t live without are: Drawing and painting animals by Edward Aldrich, and Painting the faces of wildlife. I bought them on Amazon and read them continually for about a month. That is when I took the book to a teacher and asked her to show me how to mix the paint. I said all the paints are listed but not an measurement. So she also taught me how to look at color. I might mention also that the teacher said she does not paint this way but we read the instructions and basically it was the mixing of the paint I needed to know. Once I got that, I was off and painting. The book was so good with step by step, I can paint anything. I think Edward Aldrich is my favorite author. I now have read so many books that I incorporate things from all the books and have a style that is my own.

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