Painting Clouds in Art

This is the top of my unfinished painting. The darkest darks of clouds are lighter than the ground color. Clouds like other forms have a dark plane, a middle tone plane and a light plane. Clouds reflect colors. The bottoms of my clouds are influenced by the cool blue water and orange of the rocks. I also added a warm orange to turn the cloud’s form, the middle plane. Clouds also show atmospheric and linear perspective. The clouds are lighter; have less detail and are more muted when they are further away and lower in the sky.

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My Painting, "Burpee Tomatoes" - Color Temperature in Art

I hope to display my painting, Burpee Tomatoes, in my August art exhibit. I wanted to paint the warm color of the orange tomatoes. The cool green tomatoes were a wonderful temperature contrast. Orange and green are secondary colors. They are made with two primary colors (red and yellow; yellow and blue). I modeled my tomatoes with warm light and a cooler shadow. As a colorist, this painting also has color as my theme and style.

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Modeling My Painting, "Cherries" with Color and Value

This is my painting, Cherries. I hope to display it in my art exhibit in August 2010. I say “hope to display” because it is still on sale at my Etsy internet shop. I loved the red reflections on the tree’s branches from the cherries. I also liked the strong light coming from the left side that allowed me to model the cherries and branches. (A technique that allows objects on a flat surface to appear in the third dimension with the use of value, temperature and color (hue) in light, middle tone and shadow.) This painting has color as my theme and style.

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