OIL PAINTING MEDIC

The inspiration to paint a beautiful sunset could be quashed when muddy colours seem to come from nowhere and bright colours look garish. An oil painting intended to portray intense colours of a dramatic sunset looks more like a post apocalyptic scene. How can the artist recreate the drama of a sunset in painting? Why Sunset Colours Look Wrong and How to Fix Them Clean Colours for Sunsets Rachel Shirley Sunset skies often set up contradicting dilemmas in the mind due to extreme tonal shifts and saturated colours that sunsets often feature. Before the artist can improve on sunset painting, the causes need to be pinpointed, which could be any of the following: Trying to make a sunset look dazzling by using exclusively bright colours in a painting, such as pinks, mauves and oranges, resulting in a candyfloss and childlike portrayal of dusk. Placing dark colours of sunset prior to the pales, causing contamination of the bright colours by the neighbouring dark colours. Allowing ...

Painting portraits of people with dark skin could be a challenge for the portrait artist if normally painting people of white European origin. The beginner may simply add black or brown to skin colours, resulting in an unconvincing colour of dark flesh. How can the artist paint dark skin with realism? Problems with Painting Skin Colours of Different Races Pigments for Dark Skin Tones Rachel Shirley The portrait painter faced with painting a dark skinned person for the first time may feel challenged at the idea of using different oil pigments and ratios to the usual practice. Painting an Indian person, for example, may turn out unsatisfactory because of the following malpractices: Rendering dark skin, such as African, Indian or native Aboriginal skin colour by adding black to a premixed skin colour pigment . Introducing white to a very dark skin colour such as African to express highlights, resulting in grey. Assigning a separate flesh colour pigment for different skin ...