THINKING WITH COLOR

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To think with color we use its vocabulary: hue, value and intensity.
Every part of any color we see can be identified not only by its hue, but also the value of that hue and the hue’s intensity.  Within any single shape, each of these vary and meld one into the other according to how they are lit or how they fall into shadow.

This tutorial teaches a thinking process by which you can observe and mix any color you are seeing.  Dianne guides you step by step towards thinking through how to find color mixtures, then setting up your palette to use those mixtures for creating a painting.

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 Rather than becoming refined paintings, all these lessons are studies, each showing a different approach for using a composing principle.  Dianne’s approach to teaching is to show you ways to think about making choices and decisions so that you can work these into your own unique approach to painting.

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With every brushstroke we make, we are composing.  Just as with any creation, we begin with a structure, then as the art work begins we place shapes and colors according the concept with which we are working.  But the time comes when we move to a different level of thinking and decision-making–that moment when our intention becomes to bring clarity and resolution to the work.

Among Dianne’s passions about painting and teaching painting is how composing principles can expand creative freedom if the artist transcends the “rule” idea and instead, transforms the principle into a tool that opens creative doors.

Read Dianne’s Compose blog posts HERE.  Visit Dianne’s website and example her work HERE.  And visit her YouTube Channel with dozens of Quick Tips HERE.