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You Can’t Go Wrong with Mixing Orange

Mixing Orange Demo When it comes to mixing oil colors for orange, there are so many beautiful combinations of reds and yellows. It is pretty hard to go wrong. Here is a quick one-minute demo showing the combinations you can get with Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Red, and Rose Red. The Alizarin Red and Rose Red combinations look pretty similar. Where you will see the difference is later on if you add white to the mix. Enjoy the Demo and when you are done, try it! You will have the perfect palette for a gorgeous sunset painting....

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How to Mix Vivid Purples

Mixing Purples Demo Red and Blue make purple….or do they? Do they always? Check out this quick one-minute demo below to find out. It shows the vivid purples resulting from mixing Ultramarine Blue with either Alizarine Crimson or Rose Red. And, (spoiler alert) it also shows the dull muddy color that results from combining Cadmium Red with Cerulean Blue. Colors Lean Ultramarine leans toward red on the color wheel and Cerulean leans closer to green. Alizarin Crimson leans toward blue and Cadmium Red leans away toward orange. Both Cadmium Red and Cerulean have a bit of yellow in them. On...

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One Year Later, Happy Blog Birthday!

On August 13th, 2021 www.CherylWhiteArt.com was born, and one year later, I look back and remember the journey. I had recently switched from working full-time to part-time and was pouring my creative self back into art. Desire, ask, believe, receive. Stella Terrill Mann One Year Later, Something to Celebrate! Looking back, I find many things to celebrate… 2 art sales, 20 posts, over a dozen sold paintings, many welcomed women to my home for art nights, and countless happy hours spent in my studio. My blood pressure dropped 10 points along with my stress level and I had margin in...

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Is Learning to Draw A Necessary Skill for Artists?

It’s a great question: How important are drawing skills anyway? Many artists new to painting can find enjoyment in mixing colors, art journaling, experimenting with different mediums, and splashing around a canvas with a bit of color without learning how to draw. There are many ways to get your image onto the canvas first before starting a painting without drawing, so why should artists bother to learn to draw? Benefits of learning to draw My opinion is that yes, drawing is definitely a valuable skill for artists no matter what type of art they prefer to do. Drawing helps with...

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Come and See A Beautiful Star!

A Beautiful Star is what lead the shepherds to come and see, Jesus, born in a manger. It had to be astounding, glorious, unlike anything they had ever seen. I don’t know if it looked anything like this, but printing this star felt like Christmas splashing onto a canvas. This painting won Best in Show at the Premiere Gallery Local Artists Show, Flower Mound, TX November 15, 2008. You are invited to come and see it at my upcoming Art Show. You can come and see this one in person at our upcoming Vintage Wares and Original Art show December...

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What is so hard about pencils?

Some sets do include an 8B and oh, how I love the dreamy rich black color from an 8B pencil. A range of several different pencils is best so you have the best tool for the job at hand.

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Mixing Oil Paint Colors

Mixing Oil Paint colors begins with a small blob about the size of a nickel of each paint color, blue, red, and yellow. To start I recommend just working with the colors listed on the Palette Knife Oil Paint Supplies post here. A general rule is to section off a portion of the light color and move it to the center or clear space in the palette and then add a very small bit of the darker color to it. Mix in a circular motion staying in the smallest space possible with your palette knife. The color maps below are...

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First Class Oil Paint Supplies

This page lists the palette knife oil painting supplies needed for your first class. I’m so glad you are joining me in the journey of palette knife oil painting. “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do” – Edgar Degas Palette Knives Any set of 5 palette knives should give you what you need, but as long as they are metal (stainless steel) with wood handles and not the plastic kind. Metal palette knives hold up longer and are much easier to work with. The two I use most are size 11 and size 25...

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How An Artist Thinks About Creating Something New

As an artist, staring at a fresh, blank canvas can feel exciting and intimidating at the same time. Expressing creatively through art can be a life-giving process, sometimes wrought with pain, but never as painful as not taking the first step. Whether starting a new blog, an art project, or any new endeavor, we begin, when not beginning becomes more painful than staying where we are. At some point, we must begin moving in a new direction.