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This week’s Threads skills workshop inspired me to work a bit more on value to paint form. I laid out my palette with a value scale, in this case of 7 values from white to black. The sphere and cylinder can be convincingly portrayed using these values. Once I became enthralled with classical drawing and…
Give me your answer, do No answer yet, but I certainly enjoyed picking these blossoms froma patch in my garden. My perennial garden is filled with blossoms and I wanted to catch them before they wilted in our 90 degree heat today. Then they begged to be painted so I obliged. This paintings are being…
Fresh flowers are one of the great joys of life at the retirement center where I live. Painting them is a joy for me, too! Years ago a former resident left an endowment sufficient to allow for weekly visits to a local wholesaler to pick up fresh flowers. Resident members of the Flower Committee then…
Congratulations to the winning bidder! It was suggested that I spend the last month or so just drawing. It wasn’t clear to me that I really needed to study drawing, however I do think it’s been helpful. I was happy to be ready to offer one of my small oil paintings for sale. Now White…
They told me studying some Brague drawing would help my paintings to become even more realistic. Do you agree that it has made a difference?
Today was mostly spent visiting my rehab specialist to check out my knee which has begun to give me bits of non-cooperation. He suggested that I would likely be a candidate for knee replacement. Oh, no! He also indicated that taking care of it sooner rather than later is likely a really good idea. Since…
As you can see these greens are very muted and already feel more real. I picked a few leaves from a rhododendron. The lowest value/chroma greens match very nicely. I suspect I’ll use greens from this chart routinely on floral and landscape paintings.
Last year I did some charts of green from my new WSO oils. This gave me a decent starting point. But like all those beginners, the chroma is uniformly too high. So I’m now turning to Munsell to see if I can mix some more realistic greens. That is, greens that actually appear in nature!
My 5Y chart I feel like I’m making some progress with these charts. This 5Y chart seems to have caused me quite a bit less grief. I began today with making quantities of the Munsell neutral grays. I had gotten six containers to keep the paint piles in once they were mixed. I’ll see over…
My 5RY This one went more smoothly. I tried to get close to the highest chroma for each value. Then I reduced the chroma by using Munsell neutrals. When that didn’t appear to work well for the lowest values, I added a bit of burnt sienna or burnt umber. It’s not perfect, but I’ll keep…
My second try at the 5R chart is somewhat better than yesterday’s. The higher values are quite a bit closer to the Munsell chips from the Student Book and I haven’t gone so over-board with the highest chroma.
Without picking up my own paints, mixing them, and learning how to make mixtures, I won’t really know anything about how to use Munsell.
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