Celeste: As a direct painter I haven't painted all that often in layers. According to the information I read, broken color is often managed with differing layers (that are allowed to show through). Monet's haystacks are a good example of color that vibrates and A Sunday on the Grand Jatte (Seurat) is an example of optical mixing. Eric Jacobsen sometimes puts three different colors on his brush and then puts it down in one brushstroke. The results are a lively "surprise"! I am showing some fall color paintings and one recent plein air.
Loretta: I read: "Broken color creates a vibration as the eyes jump from one color to the next. Dabs of color allow the lower layers of color to be exposed. Optical color: 2 small amounts of different colors side by side create a different color".
Ken: 10 years ago I was spellbound by orange and green that I saw in nature. I stopped and spent time in it. I've thought about that time since...I am still in love with those colors! Whenever I paint I think mostly about complementary colors. I brought a recent painting.
Tim: I painted at the Powell Butte Paint out...but you all didn't! (Laughter)! (Not too many people showed up). I painted this. I usually think about complementary colors when I paint. I painted this duck from one of my own photos.
Harley: Dotty and I were recently in the Richard McKinley workshop. He stressed an underpainting (with complementary colors in mind). When you paint over the top of the underpainting you allow some of it to show through. He advocates black tape around the edges of your work. He would come around to each student and give them advice. A real highlight for me was when he came around as I was working on this... I said, what does it need? He said..."Sign it". (Applause)!
Dotty: Harley stole some of what I was going to say! (Laughter)! Pastels are ideal for broken color because you don't have to wait for things to dry like you have to with oil painting. It is great to put two pastels of similar value next to one another. I am showing two recent plein air paintings.
Sharon: I did not know the topic and I don't know if I've done it! I am showing an acrylic painting and and watercolor /ink painting.
Sarah: I am not familiar with this subject at all! I am listening. I went painting at the coast. Landscape used to bore me, but now I am obsessed by it! I don't know how to deal with it! (Laughter)! I have learned that oil paint gets on everything! (Laughter)! I even got paint on my swim suit...I have no idea how that happened and I am sure people were wondering if I was painting in my swim suit! (I wasn't) (Laughter)!
Sharman: I did not know the topic today and I don't know about it..I am listening!
Donna: I did this pastel chart. It was recommended by Michael Chesney Johnson. I found it instructive (I learned how to modify colors). Pastels are great for broken color, but I like to thwart it, for example sometimes it is nice to have a smooth all blue sky. I am showing a pastel painting.
Elo: If there is broken color in my painting it is because I thought about it. Sometimes I drag a drier brush over the top of things deliberately with an effect in mind. I brought two recent paintings. This one has some obvious "fall color".
Nancy Z: I missed the paint out on Powell Butte. I did find this painting that I did, however, that has some warm colors. I usually have cad yellow light on my palette, but I also got some cad yellow medium and it really seems to help to have both.
Renita: I just don't know if I use broken color or not! I took a recent trip with my hiking friends to Bend. I was so inspired by the scenery. I painted several paintings.
Stephanie: I wanted to depict a brown tree trunk, but I realized an all brown tree was probably going to look dead, so I used purple and orange for the tree trunk and when I stepped back from the painting...voila! the purple and orange read as brown. I am showing some of my recent "fall color" paintings.
Tom: Broken color and optical color mixing are similar. If I get there I'm not sure how I got there (Laughter)! I like to capture the fall colors when I can. I am showing a recent painting.
Mike: I am back from a trip to the beach. I brought my mascot with me today ("Panky"). My daughter made Panky for me (& he has accompanied me to all chemo treatments). I loved painting in my sketchbook at the coast at different times of day. I researched the topic. I thought at first that broken color is an oil painter or pastelist thing, but then I realized that watercolorists do achieve effects by dry brushing and other ways. I read passages in the James Gurney book about how putting colors next to each other creates specific effects. I love fall color. Fall is my favorite season.
Vicki: Once again I listen to the question/answers and I think "I need to do more of that"! I missed the Powell Butte paint out, but then Stephanie and I went to Powell Butte on our own. We tend to think of fall color as being bright, but the fall muted colors (like at Powell Butte) are just as nice!
Tedd: I went to the Powell Butte Paint out. I used oil pastels (for the first time) there. Too much broken color for me! (Laughter)! I'll probably give them away! (Laughter)! I am showing some small abstract acrylic paintings that I did recently.
Nancy S: This has been a year of plein air for me. I was an artist in residence on the coast. I went to the plein air convention. My husband and I painted in Winslow plein air (in Washington) and most recently I spent a week painting and conducting a workshop at the famous Ghost Ranch. I've also really enjoyed the Alla Prima paint outs over the year too (thanks for organizing them)! I work with palette knife and often I let colors show through. I am showing recent painting.
Becky: I've done the opposite of broken color with this painting. I used a reference from pixaby. I like the ethereal quality of it (and I will take it further). As far as the topic, I have a project coming up (a portrait) and I intend to experiment, to not blend as much but to place colors and leave them be. I sold a painting at the Beaverton Art Mix! (Applause)!
Dianna: I am showing a demo board that I did for one of my workshops. I showed the students how to depict seasons with just three colors. I had them think about "bright-warm" and "bright-cool". The students worked from intentionally "bad" black and white photos (to help them think less about detail and more about the color and light). Here is a good example (in acrylic) of broken color. I am also showing two large paintings. The 2nd one was done while I was listening to meditation music.
Eunice: I pass!
Bhavani: I am just back from 2 months in India. Before I left I took a watercolor workshop with Yong Hong Zhong. I took only watercolors with me to India. I did this painting (and others) there. I like an artist named Joshua Reynolds. He uses big brushstrokes and he doesn't "mix" paint but layers colors on top of one another (photos below). I am working very purposefully toward this myself in my own oil painting. I think when you are out in the field and you can't tell what the color of something is, it is a great opportunity to work in this way..slow down and observe.
Greg: I am inspired by Fall colors!
Thomas: The term "broken color" has been mis attributed. Broken color is really about light. The color of light shifts each time there was a plane change. (Editor's note: Thomas said much more, but I can't decipher my notes. I'll try to get a link that explains). Thomas continued: I was hoping Jim would be here today to see this painting I painted of him at Umpqua. I am leaving on Sunday to start filming my DVD about Sargent. (applause)! I am showing my practice painting.
Announcements:
Next paint out...Friday, Oct 25 9am Lone Fir Cemetery with Host Tim Young
Se 26th and SE Washington
Thomas Kitts Plein Air Sicily Workshop May 16 - 23 2020 see graphic below
www.thokitts.wixsite.com/
Dianna Shyne classes: https://diannashyne.com/workshops
(+ possible Thursday evening at Dianna's studio, paint with Meditative music...contact Dianna dianna@diannashyne.com)
Nancy Smith Klos classes: http://ateliernangallery.com/workshops
Call to Artists (Washington County) Tuality Hospital Studio Direct: https://www.studioartdirect.com/call-to-artist/2019/9/23/call-to-oregon-artists-art-heals-tuality-hospital
Joanne Radmilovich Kollman Life drawing (Friday am), Figure painting (Friday pm), Expressive flower painting (Saturdays) at OSA
https://public.osartists.org/public/classes
Oct 19-20 Washington County Open Studios https://www.washcoart.org/
Nov 3 Clark County Open Studios https://www.visitvancouverusa.com/event/clark-county-open-studios-tour/18532/
Portland Open Studios (Oct 12 & 13 and 19 & 20 https://portlandopenstudios.com/
Remax art exhibit: Harley Talkington, Vicki Zimmerman, Hilarie Couture, Stephanie Cissna and others: https://www.pdxpipeline.com/events/portland-open-house-art-show-sale-remax/
NW Pastel Society Show Nov 1 https://nwps.org/events
Next Art Discussion Meeting Oct 17, 9am......Preparing to paint! What are your best suggestions for just getting ready to paint? What has really helped you ? Let's hear it! Let's discuss!
Joshua Reynolds, click to Enlarge
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