Aaargh! I CANNOT MIX A GREEN OLIVE! I need to study color mixing—with books, YouTubes, artists (bink knows how).
And with bears—if I print 49 of these little color studies, I will learn a lot. Right now I’m frustrated with my colors. I mixed most of these, and they look okay —but many aren’t what I was aiming for.
I started working on the bears at 6:30 this morning and worked till 2:30 p.m., printing the each bear in its color-combo three times (the first one I printed last night):
I do want to do this!
Tomorrow I go back to work. I don’t want to… but they pay me! It’ll be good once I get started.
OH GAWD I love them!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Linda Sue. So do I!!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Linda Sue and Joanne!
ReplyDeleteThat means a lot. Do you know how you get frustrated with your own artistic limitations – – and then it’s really nice to have somebody remind you
I went out for happy hour this evening with a thrift store friend, and she said she wanted one of these to frame! That made me so happy! I told her she couldn’t have one because they are too messy, (more than shows in a photo)—but I will print one for her that is cleaner.
“one of these” = a strip of 5 bears
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Love those colour trials..a good image in itself xx
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DeleteI so love the bears - maybe even more as a group than individually, it's hard to decide. Their different expressions seem especially effective massed. I wonder. if this would be do-able on canvas.... So many ideas being generated for me.
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Thanks, Ceci—I meant the 5 bears to be a group —the original idea was 49 bears! on a poster-size piece of paper.
DeleteToo many for starters.
You should start a blog and share your art too! 😊
i've never really painted but in looking at the bears and even last night when i couldn't fall back asleep, here are some color thoughts. the computer monitor shows the colors as more white in the paint rather than a deeper color. my thought would be to take several dabs of paint and put them on paper. see what happens when you add white paint - the color should lighten and adding black paint will tend the color towards black. so if you want to make more olive green then i would start with green and then add just a little yellow. this should brighten up the green. try adding color to the paint to brighten it. blue would make the green more towards the teal side.
ReplyDeleteand i love the strips of them and could see them as framed.
kirsten
Thanks for your thoughts Kirsten! I love that you’re lying awake thinking about paint mixing – –
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I did mix every one of those bear’s colors (except the primary blue and the primary red on them some buttons)
– – and basically was doing versions of what you suggest – – It’s just that some of the more “off” colors take some weird mixtures – – I’m thinking that maybe a green olive has a touch of red in it?
I don’t know will look it up and continue to explore!
I’d felt kind of down about it, but actually I’m excited to try and keep learning.
Yay learning! I love that you’re thinking about it too!
Combining green and red = combining all 3 primary colors and thus gives some version of brown. Since olive is a brown-ish green, I suspect that adding a touch of red or orange will get you closer to what you want.
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Okay, I looked up a recipe for the color of a green 🫒 olive:
DeleteLight aqua-blue
+ orange
+ green
!
So yes, we were all right:
Deletea touch of red mixed with yellow would make orange;
and the light blue has a lot of white in it.
Ah, here—Pantone gives exact percentages—
ReplyDeleteFor PIMENTO red:
86.3% red,
36.5% green
and 27.8% blue.
Except those numbers = more than 100% 😆
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