Painting tips thread

[Anonymous No.1460844]

Post here all the universal truths about form, light, colour, composition etc
They may be obvious but lets spell them all out here!
I'll start -

Where there’s light there is texture and form
shadow is smooth, weightless and even.

Example by: Gheorghe Petrascu

[The more you know No.1460874]

If you have a hard time balancing a large composition with many elements -
adding a busy background as opposed to a more blank one helps a lot

[Anonymous No.1460875]

BLAST!

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.fr/2009/01/blast-rule.html

[Anonymous No.1460886]

Mixing with white always makes colours cooler and duller.
A way to avoid this is to use glazing rather than mixing

[Anonymous No.1460905]

Example of how surroundings affect the perceived in your eye.

Something to meditate upon.

[Anonymous No.1460926]

>>1460905
Better example of relative color perception.

A and B are the same color/value

[Anonymous No.1460929]

>>1460926
That one's good too, specially for drawing, but I like how the previous one adds colour, temperature, texture to the mix. All that can and should carry a great deal of information in painting.

[Anonymous No.1460933]

In a good, wholesome painting there are 3 aspects to consider and focus on and make work with each other. These are:
a) warm/cold
b)light/dark
c) composition

[Anonymous No.1460953]

warm colours make things seem more up close
cold hues send objects visually more to the background.

Same effect with saturation (less colour, more distant)

[Anonymous No.1461023]

>>1460844
you mix complimentary colors to get chromatic blacks, this gives you a black with a temperature. there are heaps of variations which can be used to achieve all kinds of effects.

[Anonymous No.1461059]

>>1460874
Do you have an example? I don't think I understand what you mean.

[Anonymous No.1461324]

Read Alla Prima by Richard Schmid. It's basically a bible of painting.

[Anonymous No.1461899]

>>1461324
That is not a one sentence tip/truth but ok. Painting alla prima from life is a great exercise with watercolours :3

[Anonymous No.1461906]

>>1461059
i'm too lazy to see if I can find any illustrative material but the truth goes for large mural like compositions with many figures or other elements that are hard to balance - having a varied background helps in that way that you can use it also for a balancing help. If it's just clear and minimal, you need to work harder on the front layers.

Just a cheap trick i guess but if it looks good then all's good!

[Anonymous No.1462180]

>>1461906