The relationship between light and color in painting

Apr 22
08:02

2013

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After lighted, the colors will completely change the proper colors. This change is mainly reflected in the three regions.

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After lighted,The relationship between light and color in painting    Articles the colors will completely change the proper colors. This change is mainly reflected in the three regions.

1.      Highlights of light: it is the strongest and the highest brightness of light. The stronger the light, the smaller shading difference between various colors.

2.      Reflections of the dark light: although it does not belong to the receiving part, its various form and shade changes because of the influence of reflected light. The weaker the light, the smaller depth differences between various colors.

3.      Gaps neither affected by light nor reflecting light: in these sections, the color difference is barely there.

 

The three areas are directly associated with the sense of color. In the sketch work, conscious exercise to identify different feelings in these three regions not only can accurately express the relation between light and dark in the sketch, and not be swayed by various shades of colors. But the color sketch also plays an extremely important role.

 

Because these three areas have completely different color feelings after lighted and affect the understanding of the sense of color, many people’s ability to master of painting color (i.e. condition color) improve very slowly, always fail. And this problem has not been solved the great relationship.

 

Why color sketch always fail? A simple example can be cited here: the color changes that we see are produced by light. No light, there will be no colors. Therefore painting the color should first draw the light color effect. In color sketch, no pure color, this basic concept must be clear. In order to make the different light and color light colors produce different feelings in three regions, white pigment will be often added in a variety of colors to draw the light. This is not only to improve the color brightness, but it is more important because all kinds of color itself are not luminous, adding the white color is to make these light colors produced under a light feeling.

 

In the dark, because of the influence of small reflected light, it should not add white pigment in painting color in the dark side. Adding white pigment which is more than the amount into the dark will also have a direct light. Especially those not reflective slot parts do not add the white pigment.

 

Using white both in the light and dark part will generate the lighted color sense, which refers to what we say “chalk", and "painted white." The main reason is in color sketch, the redeployment of white pigment is to enhance the color light. Decorative painting excludes light factors, so in the decoration of colors only color sense is focused on without light sense and white adding issues. The careful use of white color in the painting mainly refers to the meticulous consideration in painting the dark.

 

For Mo Bea Sen Co of Russian Repin Academy of Fine Arts, because their classroom is surrounded by big class windows and as bright as outdoor, so their students are famous for their more white usage in oil painting sketch. That’s the truth.