Fall and Winter Color!

I started this blog in the summer and we have moved as a group thru late summer into fall and now in a  few weeks it will be Winter.

If you are a painter you notice the changes. Colors become muted and more browns, tans, and earth tone greens as the trees withdraw their sap and freezing weather comes along. Now if your in another hemisphere than our northern one then you have a different pattern.
But still you too should be observing the changes as you move into your Spring and summer.

The color wheel we did a while back is really split in half with cool and warm sides as well as accents and opposite sides. A painter can take a few colors and indicate heavy shadows on one hand. Then on the other hand you could show brilliant highlights.

I didn't talk about white and black too much, because as those colors are added to paint it changes value and tints. Monet decided to leave black out of his pallet, and many of the other Impressionist followed his lead, but some did not.  I notice Van Gogh used dark blue for his outlines of houses and people.

Well the point is Notice what the seasons are doing around you and use color accordingly. Enjoy this next season!