Three Tips on Seeing Colour in Greys - A Demo in Soft Pastels

[@rebeccawong1]

I m loving this, again n again 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@GailSibleyArtist]

😁😁😁

[@MT-bc6xf]

Great teaching. Lovely lady. Thank you for sharing. Very helpful!!!!.

[@GailSibleyArtist]

Thank you!! I love knowing my vids are helpful 😁

[@kristinegreig6160]

This is stunning! Thank you 😊 It has been very helpful ❤

[@GailSibleyArtist]

Ohhhhh thank you Christine!!!

[@marialuisacontarin6615]

Great teaching! Adore all of your paintings, you're too too clever...

[@GailSibleyArtist]

@@marialuisacontarin6615 thank you so much for the lovely compliment!!!

[@barbarascott1774]

Thanks so much for this video and your tips first colour that jumped out to me was pink

[@dylanduke1075]

Unbelievably helpful

[@GailSibleyArtist]

@@dylanduke1075 wow! That’s rewarding to hear!!

[@dylanduke1075]

@@GailSibleyArtist good! I hope you delve further into this topic to be honest. It’s really not looked into enough by instructors on KZbin. I’d also happily pay for a lesson if possible!

[@GailSibleyArtist]

@@dylanduke1075 ohhhh good feedback. The more specific you can be, the more helpful to me.

[@dylanduke1075]

@@GailSibleyArtist hi Gail, great, no problem! I actually sent you a DM on Instagram about this but essentially what I mean is how to exaggerate/push/shift colour to advance from “copying” colour to “using” colour. I’m a big fan of Monet, JMW Turner and modern artists such as Mitchell Albala and Loriann Signori - they all seem to “use” colour to do something more than just successfully represent whatever they’re painting. I’ve actually seen a few interviews with Albala where he talks about this and he considers the subject to be almost incidental where the real subject is the colour/light. When I paint, I look at the colours in my reference (life or a picture) and I start to copy those colours. If I try shifting a colour to a new one, increasing saturation (even accounting for the change in value) or trying to throw in colours where they “aren’t” in my reference - it ends up a bit of a mess and never looking very good. Seeing how you got the greys here to pop and do so much more than your reference is exactly what I’m talking about. I think if you could talk about value, hue and saturation considerations when trying to shift/exaggerate/push colour to be more expressive, it would be super helpful.

[@florinpetcu1044]

Thank you for the video!

[@Coco2345ful]

I love this! Got to listen carefully...this is what I want to learn!

[@chappbj]

Hi Gail! In your shirt I see a blue greenish great. And of course the leaves on it are also a grayed red or pink. Thank you for this!

[@vanessahuygens11]

I can see blue and purple on the grey of your shirt.. Thank you for this video!

[@DaleCookFineArt]

What fantastic tips Thank you Gail. Definitely I see purple

[@mimiwhitney-hafft3036]

I see some blue complimented by pink

[@melanieopperman6688]

Hi Gail you are so vibrant, thank you for the encouragement your love for painting, colour and pastels is contagious. Thank you for the eye opener. I couldn't help squinting while trying to see colour in your grey top... old habits... but I saw grey leaning to blue. I am keen to see the tutorial on mixing greys. I am so glad that you will be showing more tutorials - hooray for today.

[@jogray5077]

I mainly see a purply blue in the grey and a pinky orange in the leaves. But when you move and the light hits in a different way I see a yellow green.....thank you for opening my eyes!

[@sonteeg]

Very useful, thanks!

[@lyndarees6643]

I saw blue/purple. Thanks for the tips and demo, they are really useful!

[@josephineherrera8508]

This was great!

[@kathryndohring5481]

Oh how pretty!

[@GailSibleyArtist]

Awwww thanks Kathryn 😊

[@jackiegoodwin2332]

It was so useful to run through primaries AND secondaries as I often think: I can’t decide, I’m not sure, I don’t think I can do this. So, I said: def not yellow, maybe red, maybe blue and settled on purple! Great tip 👍🏻

[@GailSibleyArtist]

Oh my gosh I love that you tried this Jackie and that it worked!!!

[@marigalante8922]

Thanks for the useful tips!

[@GailSibleyArtist]

Glad they were helpful!!

[@elpajaroazul9909]

Increíble, me parece que el manejo del color es maravilloso, todas tus obras me encantan, sigo diciendo que eres una pastelista grandiosa, que lastima que tus cursos estén en inglés, no soy muy bueno con el inglés. Veo siempre tus videos y tu técnica me encanta, de lo poco que puedo entender e aprendido mucho, me gustaría manejar la combinación de colores como tú lo haces, gracias por tus videos y espero subas más seguido, saludos desde México. 😁😁😁

[@teresawright5654]

Blue gray on my tv

[@felicitysidwell55]

Yellow at the top, blue at left pink at bottom

[@kyleecompton7376]

I see blue in your shirt

[@marigalante8922]

I think i saw a blue/purple in your shirt and pink in the leaves

[@GailSibleyArtist]

Awesome Mari! Thanks for doing the exercise 😁

[@antonellacerfeda125]

Blue

[@GailSibleyArtist]

Yeah!

[@royharrison2202]

I see blue.

[@marybeadles8918]

I see blue

[@gary8534]

Light pink in the leaves….

[@kitkat9341]

I see pink in the grey, but if I didn’t know it had pink leaves I may have said blue.

[@zondagsschilder4979]

i see blue

[@rebeccawong1]

Definitely not just those 12😭

[@kathryndohring5481]

Blue

[@GailSibleyArtist]

Whoo hoo! Thanks for playing along 😁

[@cindynihart4788]

I see blue