| Oil paint is a wonderful multitalented medium. But with | | | | propensity of the apple, the shadow on the apple, |
| all the varieties of colors, brushes, mediums and all | | | | the cast shadow, reflection from near by objects like |
| other tools existing, it is actually enough to make one | | | | the green grass and the sky. Painter job is to |
| confuse. When you learn about the variety of | | | | perfectly bring exactly these values on canvas by |
| brushes and mediums it could be bit confusing as well, | | | | using color mixture. You could find many varieties of |
| and in fact it is a major challenges to exactly depict | | | | oil painting colors accessible in market today. All these |
| the nature and other real life objects on canvas using | | | | special colors come from the six colors that make up |
| color. | | | | the spectrum - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. |
| Often one is puzzled on how to create color lighter | | | | Colors carry four main properties: Value, Intensity, |
| or darker? Or how to make original shadows or | | | | Hue and Temperature. The value of color determines |
| highlights? Now with the article would be able to shed | | | | the darkness and lightness of any particular color. The |
| some colorful light on the condition, and with habitual | | | | intensity of color determines how bright or dull the |
| practice, working with color in your oil paintings would | | | | color actually is, also called as a saturation or purity. |
| become even easier and more enjoyable. | | | | The temperature determines how warm or cool any |
| We could perhaps thank God for giving beautiful Sun, | | | | color is. Finally, the hue is just another name for color. |
| for without it, we might not have seen any color. | | | | A red apple or a red cherry are both hues of red. |
| Everything would just appear dark and colorless. The | | | | As we said color mixing is not a real science. If you |
| light from Sun travels in a straight line, so we take | | | | survey 10 artists and ask different types of |
| pleasure of the wonderful variety of light and | | | | questions about color mixing, you would probably to |
| shadow that makes everything so pleasant to paint. | | | | get many different answers. We would just advise |
| For example, if you take an apple, and put it outside | | | | you to keep painting and practicing until you grow |
| on the grass during sunlight, you would possibly | | | | your own methods and formulas, which you are |
| notice various shades that the light creates when it | | | | comfortable with. Happy Painting! |
| shines on the apple. You have the main overall | | | | |