5/24/2023 0 Comments Color and light by james gurneyTo describe the special alchemy at play in the color selection of a master as elusive is an understatement. Looking at my skin, I can’t detect any green, but in the context of this painting, It just works. Why is it the masters can so effectively depict a moonlit scene or the warm, translucent glow of an ear caught in the sun? Why do their colors look so right while mine look so wrong? Individually, the colors they’ve chosen don’t even make sense. In regards to color, it can be hard to figure out what separates your work from that of a professional. The problem persists when you’re older and decide to take the subject of painting seriously. But then again, neither did our stick figures. Granted, its color was a bit of an oversimplification and didn’t do the complexities of real human skin justice. It was that one warm, fleshy orangish pink that was the only crayon even remotely close to human flesh. In elementary school, when it was time to draw, I remember everyone would dig through the big box of crayons in search of that one skin-colored crayon.
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