George Stone Fine Art Newsletter
August 2021
Marsh Sunset
Marsh Sunset, 16" x 24" Oil Painting
Hi everybody. I hope you and your families are having a great summer. I
am currently participating in a multi-artist show at the Rob Shaw
Gallery, located at 324 State St. in West Columbia. The show will hang
through the end of August. The other artists participating in the show
include Noelle Brault, Jamie Blackburn, Blue Sky, Matthew John and Rob
Shaw. I also have paintings on display at Rutledge Street Gallery in
Camden SC so check them out if you get a chance.
Okay, let's continue our discussion from previous newsletters regarding
the fundamental elements of fine art painting which includes the
following:
1. Concept
2. Composition
3. Drawing
4. Values/Edges
5. Color
6. Technique
7. Presentation
This month I'll talk a little bit about color. Color is a complex topic
and many volumes have been written about it, however I will focus on
some of the basics.
Color has three qualities or characteristics: hue, value and chroma.
You may have made a color wheel at some point in the past where you
placed your primary colored paint (red, yellow and blue) equidistant
apart on your paper or canvas and then mixed them together in various
combinations to form the secondary colors (orange, green and violet).
You can then further mix these colors to form tertiary colors such as
yellow-orange or blue-violet. So the term "hue" refers to where a color
lies on this color wheel. Is it green, yellow-orange, red violet, etc.?
Hue is essentially the name of the color.
Value, as we discussed in a previous newsletter, is how light or dark a
color is. If you were to take a black and white photo of a color it
would fall somewhere on a scale between black at one end and white at
the other, with various shades of gray in between. Value is the most
important characteristic of color as it essentially creates the design
or composition in a painting.
The third quality of color is chroma and it refers to simply how
intense or dull is the color. A color is reduced in chroma, or grayed,
by mixing it with the color directly opposite on the color wheel,
called it's complement. For instance, the complement of green is red so
the chroma of an intense green could be reduced by adding red to it.
Many artists reserve the most intense colors for use at the focal point
in order to help direct the viewers eye there. For instance, in the
painting below, "Billowy Clouds", I used the high chroma red for the
barn which is the focal point. I further emphasized this focal point by
using contrasting values there with the light barn roof adjacent to the
dark trees.
Billowy Clouds
Billowy Clouds, 16" x 20" Oil Painting
Thank you so much for subscribing to my newsletter and for your
interest in my artwork. I would love to hear from you. Please email me
at george@georgestonefineart.com or go to "Contact the Artist" on my
website (georgestonefineart.com) to share your thoughts. And check out
the available paintings on my website. I would love to help you add one
to your collection of artwork.
Blessings to you and your family,
George
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