Blondheim Art Original Painting Palms

8x10 inches
acrylic on panel
gold or silver frame
500.00
Purchase HERE


Painters Journal

I'm posting Saturday's Blog on Friday because I am teaching a workshop all day tomorrow.



New on My Web Site


I receive emails all the time from artists who wish they could take my workshops but live too far away. For each of my workshops I make a three ring binder full of exercises and materials related to the theme of study. You can now purchase these workshop notebooks here at my web site. The notebooks have a series of exercises which you can do over and over again and keep in your notebook. Now you can do your own workshop at home when it is convenient.

The notebooks are 40.00 with 7.00 shipping USPS Priority Mail.


http://lindablondheim.com/publications.php




Painters Tip



Painting with Neutrals

Think of your neutrals as warm or cool. You can have a definite bias in your grays toward warm of cool, depending on which primary you emphasize. Let's say you want to make a neutral and you have Cadmium Red Light, French Ultramarine Blue,Cad medium Yellow and Titanium White. This will be a warmer neutral than a combination of Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Yellow Lemon and Thalo Blue. You will have a warmer neutral moving toward brown with more red. You will have a cooler neutral moving toward blue with more blue added. You can control the cold or warm neutrals by the proportion of any combinations you use.

Practice making neutrals with your split primary palette. Use cool red/warm red, cool blue/warm blue, and cool yellow/warm yellow, mixing neutrals with each. You Will soon see that there are many possibilities and subtle neutrals to choose from.

Let's say you wish to use black and white for gray. No problem with that. You can add a bit of cool blue or red to enhance it, or go to warm red or blue to swing it back toward a warmer gray.

What I love to do best with neutrals is use them next to pure chroma. Neutrals make color pop better than any other color because there is such a great contrast visually between the neutral and the color it is next to.