tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14672405.post6063205132985002804..comments2023-10-30T13:27:44.690-04:00Comments on Painting My World: The Painting Blues: Three Reasons to Paint with BlueKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17239336384191511625noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14672405.post-80412805065421266052018-03-08T10:21:23.076-05:002018-03-08T10:21:23.076-05:00That's something wonderful about your blues pa...That's something wonderful about your blues paintings. I'm used to monochrome and setting out one color and its values - actually one hue, not even bright and muted versions of say, blue-violet. But you're including all variations of that color, gray-blue leaning violet on through to sizzling green cast blues. So the amount of variation possible in one of your monochromes is tremendous - and it makes sense.<br /><br />Because that's working with color as color along with value. That's adding intensity and cast to the mix but still keeping it simple - and can distinguish sea and sky, foliage and pond, clouds and flowers... anything really. It's glorious. It has the strong values of monochrome as I'm used to it and all the color tricks of polychrome without losing the monochrome feeling. It's what might make some of the less natural monochromes work, like say, red. It would be incredible in green!<br /><br />Any color could work with this. Though working with shades of rather than related values, you'd get "yellows and greens" in a yellow one, or "oranges and greens" with orange. Would look cool either way. I chose yellow for a gouache monochrome in a class once by recognizing that mixing the shades gave me olive greens and thus two colors in a monochrome palette.robertsloan2arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02598847116529877475noreply@blogger.com