[nova]

WOW!

Hm, I'm appreciating color more and more these days. I think that Sargent exhibit set my mind off funny and made me think about color in a totally different way. I never though i'd find myself painting blue over an area of a semi-regular skin tone, or green for that matter. Maybe that's why skin i colored looked either plastic or over-dodgy

Just thought I'd share a few tones I've come to like recently:




(i hope heaven is the color of [default] photoshop guides..)









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-nova

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[Visionary]

You should come over and paint my walls with some of that coloring!

-Visionary

[nova]

mebe i should, eh?



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-nova

[Visionary]

you know...
that would be really cool.

Its just that the apartment manager would have a fit when I decide to leave.

[Lunatique]

Hey Nova, definitely show some examples of how these new colors affected your paintings.

Yep, people usually think in very limited terms when they apply skin tones. I am a fan of indigo blue myself.

Visionary: paint your room? How about she just paints YOU with those purdy colors? Then you guys can have fun washing all that paint off. . ..

Oops, did I just say that out loud?

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[Visionary]

I prefer a white painted room. Keeps me out of mood shifts that colors can often do to people subconsciously. Besides, a white room keeps the place lit up allowing you to use less lighting.
Interested to see how a multi colored house would affect a family.

-Visionary

[nova]

Luna:

Examples:
Posted today:
http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/ubb/Forum5/HTML/001219.html

Very much in progress pic, probably won't finish it in a while because of lack of enthusiasm/inspiration :


Looking at the Sargent stuff changed my thinking about colors in skin, and confirmed some things I noticed when looking at art before i went to the exhibit. I dunno, I'm experimenting a lot more and feeling more confident overall.. that exhibit was a breakthrough or something

Visionary: I agree.. although my room is a very pale shade of grey which is kind of calming. I have some translucent silver celular shades in there too, when the sun shines in the room turns all pretty and silverish,

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-nova


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[Visionary]

I'll see if I can nab this picture up above at school and work it out for you if that�s all right. Maybe I can help get you over whatever made you loose the inspiration.

See, I'm picturing her in either a park taking a gander at something with a �hey that�s kind of odd, what�s going on over there� expression while she was resting on a bench perhaps in a park or sitting at the mall having clothes fashion contest with other girls.

-Visionary

P.S. Keep it up!

[Lunatique]

Very nice, Nova!

I like your sensibility, but we already know that, right?

One thing to keep in mind when you decide to finish the piece: the surrounding colors will affect her skin. Also warm light source tend to cast cool shadows and vice versa.

Definitely keep it up.

I have a strange feeling that the spontaneity I like about your sketches will translate better in Painter than Photoshop. Maybe it's just your sensibility just screams "traditional paint look!" to me.



BTW, I'm just playing about the whole "washing paint off of the boy thing." Don't mind me. I have a weird sense of humor.



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[Visionary]

So here is a question for people - I might just take this topic up on a different discussion
WHY do guys generally dig Blues and Blacks and girls go for purples and pinks? What�s the relativity?

-Visionary

I think too much...

[Ragnarok]

Now that you mention it, it seems to be quite true...
And I have no idea why it can be =/

Can we mix purple and blue succesfully and get an unisex picture?

[rdgraffix]

Nice stuf Nova, It really brings the flesh to life, doesn't it?

You might want to try the same principal to other elements, like the clothing. After all, they too are affected by inconsistent hues of ambient light.

I believe that a part of the blue/black and purple/pink segregation is a subconscious leftover from childhood, where blue was for boys and pink for girls. Of couse, most artists would scoff at that now, but a small part of their mind probably subtly steers them in those directions when picking a random colour.

There is also the issue of blue and black being relatively dark and powerfull colours, appealing the those to whoom which masculinity and strength are important.

Of course, I'm probaby totally full of shit, as I know stuff all about psychology - it's just my wild guess for the reason behind the subtle, variable trend. It could all just a matter of subject matter and the colours that best suit it.

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RD Graffix

[Pynk Pyro]

I think you're way off about your whole color theory because I've always liked blue. I think people's favorite colors go with their personality type more than anything. Red, yellow, orange= all energetic colors
Blue, purple= calmer colors
(Not that I'm a calm person or anything...
Green= well, boys and girls we all know what that color stands for (just kidding)

[nova]

I hate this question, i really do. Favorites are greys and blacks, all blues and maroon. Emerald green is in there too.

And yea, i think it comes a large part from how we were raised. It's that funky funky subconscious thing. When you're a baby, for example, and look around you and see pink, it doesn't register as 'pink' and/or 'pink means girly'. That sticks in your mind for a while.

Emotions are often times driven by colors, and work the other way especially in art. Your outlook on life and your personality has to do with it too. For a while i wore a lot of monochrome and black because it made me feel secure an a little more respectable than i knew i was. I felt goth though, like I was almost snotty because of that. Now i tend to still wear dark colors and blues of all kinds because I'm no longer so 'goth'.

I've always gone toward cool colors, mebe just cuz i'm such a cool person? Right. I used to hate red, oranges and yellows.. i think because I was always pretty timid. There are days I wear red because I feel in a red mood, days i still wear greys and blacks because I feel that way. I never did like green or brown, except for this freaky stage in 8th grade when i was all 'environmental' and stuff. Scary. I don't like it much now except for, as mentioned above, emerald green.

Some pinks are ok, some oranges are ok, but it really depends on my mood. Usually go for the deeper colors though.

(Darn you Visionary.. started another topic on this.. click here to see it: http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001221.html )

-Nova



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