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Terry Miura: "Color is difficult to master, to be sure, but without solid understanding of the bones underneath it all, you're only faking it." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Black and white value studies can have an impact all their own.

Barney Davey: "The Color Trends for 2012 are taking their cues from outdoors." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Barney Davey shares some color trends artists can take advantage of in 2012.

Gabriel Boray: "Creating color steps or tones in this way is both functional and symbolic and can serve you in any style or subject." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Gabriel Borays uses lessons from music to encourage artists to experiment with color.

Mikki Senkarik: "The marvelous thing about this system is it's impossible to mix dirty or muddy colors." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Mikkie Senkarik shares her double primary palette color mixing system for oil painting.

Michael Lynn Adams: "I start with a loose drawing. This is the skeleton of the painting and needs to indicate key points of interest and composition. If this isn't right from the start nothing will save it later." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Michael Lynn Adams shares his painting process in this demo.

Michael Chesley Johnson: "Sometimes when I have a new group of students and we talk about color in the plein air landscape, questions arise." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Michael Chesley Johnson explains the attributes of color.

Stapleton Kearns: "I don't want to make paintings that are green all over, so I smuggle red." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Stapleton Kearns shares his solution for toning down the greens of summer.

Angelia Thompson: "Mandalas are the perfect format for creativity when you have a lot on your mind. " Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Angelia Thompson shares her inspiring mandala drawings.

Donald Fox: "Alone in my studio I stand before the white stare of the blank canvas. " Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Donald Fox shares his own creative personal painting experience.

Gabriel Boray: "The secret of color is not the number of possibilities, it's how you limit them to establish order within a given range. " Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Gabriel Boray shares some tips for working with a limited palette of colors.

Michael Chesley Johnson: "A prettier grey can be made by mixing a color with its near-complement instead." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Michael Chesley Johnson explains how to mix grays in oil painting.

Michael Chesley Johnson: "One question we had today was, How do you keep from using too many colors?" Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Michael Chesley Johnson explains how to work with a limited palette.

Robert Genn: "I'm sticking by my prediction that women are going to be the top refined artists by the end of this century. " Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Robert Genn sends out an invite to participate in a free color test.

Stapleton Kearns: "I think that summer is the hardest season to paint outside. It is just way too much green for me." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Stapleton Kearns shares some painting tips dealing with the greens of summer.

George De Chiara: "I learned more about the colors on my palette painting the color charts than I did with all the paintings I had done before the charts combined." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: George De Chiara explains the value of creating color charts for painting.

Keith Bond: " I will offer a few suggestions for maintaining fresh color after the painting has dried but before you varnish. �" Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Keith Bond covers several topics on keeping fresh color in your oil paintings.

Lori Woodward: "You're probably wondering why in the world I'm making such a simple concept sound so complex... because the color of light is complex. " Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Lori Woodward discusses color relationships when painting lights and shadows.

Michael Lynn Adams: " It is believed that Zorn reduced his palette to as few as three rather earthy colors - Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red Medium, Ivory Black plus White." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Michael Lynn Adams explains how to make a beautiful Zorn Palette.

Lori Woodward: "For those who are newbies to art... value is another word for the amount of lightness or darkness you see on an object. " Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Lori Woodward explains the effects of value and color in painting, along with some great examples.

Katherine Tyrrell: "What is colour? Do you know or do you want to learn more about colour and its use as an artist?" Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Katherine Tyrrell shares some great color resources for artists.

Robert J. Simone: "The simple answer is: We don't mix a color called copper. Instead we observe the subject carefully in terms of the colors on the color wheel." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Robert J. Simone explains how to paint the color copper through the process of observation.

Jana Bouc: "The idea is to discover about all the variations of value and hue that you can make with just two colors (plus white) and to experiment with using both cool and warm colors for the light or the shadows." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: A fun exercise to explore the possibilities of using only two colors.

Mikki Senkarik: "The marvelous thing about this system is it's impossible to mix dirty or muddy colors." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Mikki Senkarik shares her Double Primary Palette for oil painting.

Ujjwal Trivedi: "As much as it is important to love your work, it is essential to do what you love to do." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: David Sommers shares a post by Ujjwal Trivedi on the subject of love and color.

Charley Parker: "There are lots of color resources on the web, for artists, designers and others, but an often overlooked one is Wikipedia, the venerable user-edited online encyclopedia." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: Charley Parker discusses the value of Wikipedia as a resource on the subject of color.

Roz Stendahl: "Some people skate by and fake it with the discovery of some harmonious choices they continue to use in repeatable combinations, but ultimately their work seems stale and their own boredom shows through." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: An excellent article by Roz Stendahl on the importance of understanding color theory.

David Sommers: "If we were to all wear our personal color codes just think how quickly we could recognize like minded people. Or maybe some things are better left personal." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: PersonalDNA is a personality test for detecting your color DNA.

Tags: color | artists | learning | creativity | All Quotes by David Sommers

David Sommers: "Color perception drifts away from neutrality during wakefulness and is restored during sleep, " Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: An interesting study involving the relationship between sleep and color perception.

Tags: color | artists | learning | All Quotes by David Sommers

Jenny Hoople: "Why are bright, colorful things so cheerful and why is America so afraid of them?" Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: A "colorful" post by guest blogger, Jenny Hoople, that gives us something to think about.

evad: "Color legend quoted from First People: Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel: all claimed that they were the best, the most important, the most useful, the favorite." Visit this link >>

Gayle Faucette Wisbon: What a wonderful legend with a wonderful message!

Tags: inspiration | color | gratitude | appreciation | All Quotes by evad

Stapleton Kearns: "Just as you need some deep darks to make a painting light up, you need some grayed notes to make your color sing. " Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Stape talks about neutralizing color.

Robert Genn: "Your honest, truthful eye sees the colour, and your knowledgeable eye knows how to mix it. You need to address your pigments on a first-name basis." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Robert Genn talks about the relationship between language and identifying colors accurately.

Tags: color | mastery | artists | skill | All Quotes by Robert Genn

Andrew Loomis: "The greatest mistake in color, and one that causes lack of unity and harmony, is having too many colors on the palette." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Armand Cabrera shares some quotes about color from Andrew Loomis.

Stapleton Kearns: "Color is a wonderful servant but a dreadful master." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Stape talks some more about pigments.

Stapleton Kearns: "You cannot observe good color into a painting. Good color is poetic and creative, it has to be installed." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Stape talks about color in paintings.

John Ruskin: "If the colour is wrong, everything is wrong: just as, if you are singing, and sing false notes, it does not matter how true your words are." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Robert Genn examines the palettes of historical painters.

Tom Lovell: "Look for movement in color - warm to cool, light to dark. It is all around us: sky, earth, grass, walls, etc. Areas will go back in space if slight amounts of complement are added." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Advice about color from illustrator Tom Lovell.

Tags: | mastery | color | All Quotes by Tom Lovell

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