Video: Poor Color Temperature Use

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Poor use of color temperatures creates a flat, uninteresting painting surface. Learn about poor color usage with tips from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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An example of, I guess, not so successful use of warm and cool colors would be a painting where everything just kind of like goes together. Where it's kind of just all one kind of flat surface. This painting, for example, although I do love it, you can see it's all just kind of very cool colors. Nothing is really jumping out at you. This bug is, I guess, the main focus, but everything on him, you can see is a cool color. If he had a bit of red in his eyes or something like that, then he would come out more, he would pop out more and the viewer would see him. For example, in this one, if there wasn't this yellow going on here in the windows and the light, then it would all just be kind of the same thing. You wouldn't know what the focal point is. But adding a little bit of the warm color, pops right out. You look right there, you get a feeling, of like, oh, that's the refuge maybe, that's the place you want to be. It's kind of glowing. So you can see the difference between this one without any colors coming out at you, any warm colors, all cool, all the same palette. And then this one, it really achieves something. You can see that the artist has a goal here, and idea, and he's using warm and cool here very successfully. Not so successfully in this one.

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Poor Color Temperature Use

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