Quick Tip 273 - Brown's not Brown
Vložit
- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- A subscriber asked about painting brown tree trunks. We couldn't find any brown ones (mostly shades of grey,) but artist/art teacher Dianne Mize did find a couple of brown subjects that use the same process as a brown tree trunk. She also notes that there are no original browns in paint.
She's great! One of the few teachers on CZcams who actually takes you step-by-step through the process of painting. I love that she reveals the palette & explains the color mixing techniques as she goes along.
Wow, thank you!
I agree. And her knowledge is amazing.
Another useful in depth tutorial! Probably only Dianne could get me thinking this much about the color brown haha :) it was great timing for me as well since I've noticed I haven't used much of my burnt umber yet, & wanted to get some use out of it
Great. Thanks for watching.
What a superb lesson. Thank you! No hype, no "hacks," no speeded up demos, no showing off - just a clear demonstration of how to think and experiment. I loved your comment about penicillin - approach color like a scientist and understand your materials.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
What an aha moment! Always had trouble mixing browns. I now have a cognitive structure to use to play with mixing browns. Thank you for these quick tips. They are small enough not to be overwhelming but small enough to play with at the easel
I love hearing about aha moments. Have fun mixing browns!.
Thanks Dianne! I always look forward to Wednesdays to get the new Quick Tip, which are always very informative. I am also amazed that you can find so many topics that are so important, yet I don't realize, until you talk about them.
Mostly from people asking her questions. So if you don't know something, ask and she will add it to the list. It will take a while to show as she makes her way through the ever growing list.
Wonderful!
Thanks for responding to this one Petrik.
Great explanation!!! Thank you so much!!!!!
You're very welcome!
I've been playing around with raw Umber in shadows. Seems dull. Mixing burnt umber to warm it up and Ultramarine to cool it down. Modulate cool greys in with it seem interesting.
When I saw the title of this tutorial I didn't think it would be of much interest,how wrong can you be .I'm painting a portrait with a lot of dark earth hues at the moment,glad I didn't miss this opportunity to try and understand what I can possibly achieve.Thanks again
I'm so glad this one was helpful.
Fantastic! I have always problem with "brown" colors and try to avoid them so this lesson was very interesting and gives me tools for thinking about these wonderful colors. Thank you so much!
Great. Glad it was helpful!
You're so much fun. Great lesson. First thing I thought of, soon as I saw the shoes was Vincent Van Gogh's Pair of Shoes from 1886, the Pair of Shoes he did in '88 & the Three Pair of Shoes he did, also in '86. The saturations & hues are so different, but looking back at them now, I am also crazed that internet reproductions are so varied, it drives me a little insane because I'm looking at Van Gogh's art, but not necessarily the way he painted it.
That inconsistency of monitor's colors drives me crazy, too.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Well, that & the original scans & multiple generations of copies. As it is, I look at multiple pictures of the same piece of artwork on the same monitor & they all read different. We can at least calibrate our monitors & cameras to take and read accurate copies of our own works, but the stuff that gets to us after the fact is simply out of our hands
The mystery of brown colors! Great explanation and rather demos helped so much! Thanks for all you do for us viewers. It is greatly appreciated.
You are so welcome!
Thanks Dianne needless to say you are such a great teacher...more so as you have indept knowledge of your subject.
Thanks indebted to you for ever...for teaching us so beautifully and patiently.
Thanks again, Alka. Sharing these is a joy.
Thank you for teaching the vocabulary of colour.
My pleasure 😊
This is has helped me tremendously, thank you so much miss Diana, one day I’ll be able to purchase all your instructional tutorials.
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
I wish I had seen this tip prior to attempting to paint a picture with a ‘brown’ urn. Your explanation of starting with the color wheel to find the hue is amazing....it makes so much sense and simplifies the process of how to mix a color. I so very much appreciate your sharing your knowledge with your viewers. I wish I could afford to purchase your videos...they would be of immense value to any beginning artist. Thank you!
Let me add, experienced artists, too, would find your tips valuable!
We've tried to keep the video lessons reasonable in price at $7 each. Perhaps, someday you can work that into your budget. Thanks for watching.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction, I must have seen incorrect pricing....I thought your videos started at $150. $7 is a very reasonable price. What is the average length of each visit?
Not visit, video.
This is brilliant,giving me many alternatives with the different shades I need for painting my sheep out in the open air. Sometimes each one is different Sometimes it's frustrating. What a great help this tutorial is.
Fantastic!
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Well,so much for my plein air painting....it's absolutely pelting down,and,the sheep are shoulder to shoulder, gobbling in the hay shed. Aaah well. I'll paint snow, with respect to Joseph Farquarson.
I have a children's book called Uncle Wally's Old Brown Shoe by Wallace Edwards. Very beautifully illustrated by the author. I am now looking at the way he painted that brown shoe with more interest now.
Thank you Diane! Very good video.
That's how it's suppose to work. Thanks for watching.
You cracked me with the two hues. Love you.
😊
Great as always, I'm still eagerly awaiting a video on painting various fabric textures!
Coming eventually. Our request list is quite long.
I really appreciate your videos. You are such a wonderful expressive lady with a wealth of knowledge. Please don't stop posting as I've never had an art lesson and need your most valued input. Thank you so much.
Thank you, I will
What a brilliant tutorial. Thank you so very much.
Glad you enjoyed it! My pleasure.
Burnt umber cool shadow has puzzled. Loving that I found your tutorials.
Welcome aboard and thanks for watching.
A very good explanation !
Glad it was helpful!
Got it!..thanks for clearing confusion about brown colours!👍..so the third one is burnt umber!.. not burnt sienna.. the second one is burnt sienna!👍 thank you again Dianne for showing & explaining everything in detail!👍 take care and stay safe!💐
Wonderful! And thank you for watching.
I'm in that classroom, looking right over her shoulder. Excellent lesson with wonderfully helpful and detailed narration..no background muzak, i love that..also i love the occasion non-sequitur
Thanks!
This video was made just for me! I'm in the process of a painting and need to do various shades of browns for shadows. Did some but they weren't quite right. Taking a break from painting and watched this video - Now I know what I was doing wrong. Thanks so much!
Woohoo! I love hearing that a Tip has been helpful.
You are so helpful!!! Yesterday I painted a light “brown” dog by adding white and it was a disaster, I should’ve watched this video first! I’m going to give it another go using your tips. 🥰
Have fun with it.
Another very informative video. Thank you so much.
My pleasure!
This is SO great. I had just started to realize that a “better” brown could be made by adding some blue, but I wasn’t sure why. Now I can understand all browns AND stop calling them “brown.” Let me second the praise of one commenter: I really appreciate that you don’t get silly, play bad music, spend time apologizing for anything, and don’t use dayglo colors in the still shots for your videos. I’m still trying to figure out how to become a Member. Thank you, thank you.
Thanks, kmwildman. To become a member, go to the homepage at czcams.com/users/inthestudioartinstruction , and click on JOIN .
Thank-you for this lesson.
My pleasure!
Another brilliant video, you are a wonderful teacher.
Would you please make a similar video on creating and using black.
I have a black cat and would dearly love to paint his portrait.
Thanks for this request, Tess. I'm putting it on our schedule. Look for it sometime in August.
Great information!
Glad it was helpful!
This is a really intelligent video. Thanks so much.
You're very welcome!
Very nicely explained
Thank you so much 🙂
There's a similar concept at play with your LED TV screen. Think about how you would display a UPS truck with red/green/blue light sources.
Good point.
U r amazing teacher.. 👍
Thanks a lot
Learn alot from ur videos... Joined ur channel... Also need ur support too
I like your humor
😉
This is so helpful. I painted a watercolour with a lot of different browns. What a challenge. It turned out ok. I wish my browns had been better. This is really helpful for acrylics but not sure the procedure I would use in watercolour. Could you do a quick tip on mixing browns in watercolour?
Laurie, the key to getting good "browns" is to switch how you look at the away from "brown" to their hue, value and saturation. What we call "browns" are most likely oranges, red oranges and reds, all at a low saturation.
Thank you so much I got so much from this video
You're very welcome!
I love your videos
Thanks.
You’re an amazing instructor.
Thanks Diane, extremely informative but didn’t quite get it...😓 ..think I have to review your quick tip on hues... and then come back to this one. 🙏🙏🙏
Yes, that would make it clearer. I teach color by the traditional color wheel and by identifying all colors we see has to their hue, value and intensity. To do that, it helps to identify colors by the hue names rather than by popular labels.
In the Studio Art Instruction yes! Thank you 😊
Thanks mam for tips & demo lesson
My pleasure 😊
Muchas gracias
And thanks for watching so many of our Tips.
This is so helpful. Where did you get that simple color wheel?
I made it. I have it free as a download on www.diannemize.com . Just click on Free Stuff in the menu.
Wow had no idea
Painting is full of surprises.
Thank you for the video it's really helpful. I have a question, apart from the primary colours and black and white, what other colour could you not do without?
For every artist, that choice is different. Go to Quick Tip 115 to find the ones I can't live without--at the moment. My preferences keep changing and getting more refined.
Thank you, I've watched the video and it was really helpful, I'd never come across red oxide before so will be adding a tube of that to my paints.
Dear Dianne, thanks a lot. This is very helpful. I learn so much. I have got similar problems with the color blue. It is said, that you can mix all colors from red, yellow and blue. But which blue is meant. Which one is the original blue for this statement a dark blue like Prussian blue, a lighter blue like Kobalt blue or Ultramarine blue. Maybe you can help.
When we refer to color in general, we first need to recognize its hue. Blue, as it appears on the color wheel or on the spectrum, is closest to Cobalt Blue. Ultramarine blue leans slightly towards Violet and Prussian Blue leans towards Green. Whether all colors can be mixed from the three primaries depends upon either having all three primaries at their closest hue registration or on having on the palette both a cool and warm version of the three primaries.
In the Studio Art Instruction Aha, now I see clearer. Thanks a lot.
3:25 "Burnt sienna"
4:02 "Burnt sienna"
Actually is the 4:03 Burnt Umber?
You're right. A bit of a misspeak there, fortunately I said it right a couple of frames later.
Dear Mam
Which is the the first shade u applied in paper, and third shade u applied on paper both look same.
Thanks
Rims1
Rims1, I don't have a formula for that. The sequence of application is determined by my observation of the reference.
Rupali Malhotra I think you mean that the first one is Raw Umber & the third one is Burnt Umber
Fab D yes
Browns not Brown’s
😊
Oh! Yesss,the dreaded apostrophe,so often used incorrectly.
As a former farm boy and observant adult I've never ever seen a brown tree trunk. Ever. Tree trunks are shades of gray. 😁
You'd be surprised at how many brown tree trunks I've seen in art shows.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Those are not tree trunks no matter what shade of brown is used or talent level of the painter - they are mere misrepresentations of tree trunks. Not saying such aren't art or pleasing to some viewer's eye, just that to paint, even a semblance, of what a real tree trunk looks like, brown should be forgotten. You, as an artist, especially one trying to teach, should know that.
Not to be pedantic, but cedar trees shed their outer grey bark and show a lot of reddish brown underneath.
Some of the little fast growing trees are tan and green.