From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape
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Autumnal reflections and golden light
From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape
Autumnal reflections and golden light
- Autumn is the season where you get that real burst of reds and oranges and it's that last real explosion of color before all the cooler tones of winter. Observing, judging and mixing successful color palettes for this season, leads to an extended palettes to create those lovely warm or (mumbles) colors that really glow through optical mixing and glazes. Softer glowing lights, colorful carpets of leaves can be captured by putting on vales of thin, transparent washes. So you might be asking yourself, why are we in autumn and not in the summer? Well I first want to introduce you to a warmer color palette and also keep that palette quite limited because when summer comes you have a lot more vibrancy, a lot stronger contrast, and it's a lot easier for your green mixes to look more artificial. So by still keeping it to a nice subdued or (mumbles) colors, we can build on the technique and the subtle color mixes so we're really prepared by the time it comes round to painting your summer…
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