How to Make a Painting Pop

When you paint, all you're ever painting is light. If there's no light, well, we don't see anything, do we? It's so obvious, of course, in one way, but as a painter, you realize all we're really painting is how light hits things. That's it. How the light hits the objects we're looking at, the way it carves around objects, the way light is reflected and absorbed. But with just one light source, we have a strong dramatic story about light.

The colors on my palette:
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Lemon
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Orange
Alizarin Permanent
Dioxazine Purple
Ultramarine Blue
Ivory Black
Chrome Oxide Green
Phthalo Green


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