Art History
Soft Pastel and the Close Portrait
Why soft pastel suited close eighteenth-century portraits, and how its powdery colour behaves on paper today.
Tag
colour
4 posts tagged "colour".
Art History
Fauvism: Colour Chosen for Feeling
How the Fauves let colour leave local truth, and how to borrow that freedom without losing the picture.
Art History
Pointillism: Dots, Optical Mix and Patience
How pointillist dots ask the eye to mix colour at a distance, and what that patience still offers a painter.
Colour Theory
Value First: Why a Grey Study Saves the Painting
Why a small grey study reveals the drawing before hue gets involved, and how to carry those tones into colour.