Plein air

Mary Gilkerson

Colour creates the Light.

Dont get stuck on the physical colour of the object
Focus on your perception of the colour instead......
We need to interpret what our eyes see - Optical colour and adding white or black to change the colour. In general dont use white/black to lighten/darken.
To lighten a colour use an equally intense but lighter value colour
Dont get stuck with the physical colour ie local colour -
OPTICAL colour = the perception of what our eyes see

Light on an apple = Yellow orange not add white.
Late evening light is orange Warm light
When painting you have to exaggerate the contrast. The brick is red but orange when the sun lights it. In the shadows - you have the absence of the colour of the light - the complement VIOLET
In autumn lots of violet in the shadows

For the Orange she mixed red and yellow
For the shadow she used Cool red + Violet. The deepest colour here is Blue/violet.

TOOLS to use to see > Wide angle focus vision

How? RELAX Use peripheral vision

Colours are greatly affected by the colours you put beside them. The grey vertical stripe is the same colour/shade all the way up but looks much darker with the white background.

Below the orange coloured field is not very intense a colour but
with the purple shadows it appears more intense.

Contrasting close compliments to create the illusion of LIGHT.

Plein Eire. Forum. Tips and discussion

“The contemporary outdoor painters palette”. T Kitts
Warm + cool of main Colours
“gray pile” scrapings from the palette ( because it will have white in it may not suit all purposes)
Dirty white pile. Mud pile Jean LeGassicks palette
Progress is what counts not success.
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Some admired works from Plein Eire
..... and I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow.........
Love the understated cattle ........ the softness ..... the silence .......would love to see the tree off centre
.... but what the hell do I know.
Artist: Kyrie Cahill