How to Enhance a Painting Using Color Temperature

[@IanRobertsMasteringComposition]

Have any other burning queries on simplifying the painting process?

[@stellapurdy3895]

Do you have any advice on simplifying foreground grassy areas without making them repetitive and boring? I am conflicted about adding detail for interest and drawing the eye away from my center of interest. Thanks! Love the videos! Is there a list of the past ones where a latecomer can catch up?

[@IanRobertsMasteringComposition]

Hi Stella, I think they are all listed in Ian Roberts Weekly Video. Last week was #38, so somewhere in KZbin they are all there together. And you bring up a good point about foregrounds. In some ways they are the hardest part of a landscape because just as you are saying , you have to have enough information so we know it is the foreground but no much it interferes with our moving past it into the midground. I wish I had a simple answer. But just that you are aware of it tells me you can solve it. It's when you aren't aware you have a problem that you're in trouble. Have a look at some landscape paintings you like and really study just that one thing.

[@stellapurdy3895]

@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition Thanks so much for your answer I will try to find the earlier videos. (and spend more time looking at foregrounds !)

[@smasica]

Good lesson; thanks. The one thing that always surprises me about painting is how much our eyes and brain fills in and wants to see from a mere suggestion on the canvas. It can be just a stroke and change in value here or there, yet your mind fills in the details and gives you everything from simple cues. Imagination is a wonderful thing.

[@IanRobertsMasteringComposition]

That is really true. I mean you can spend ages getting a ton of detail right in a painting and in fact a much, much simpler impression works better anyway.

[@thvrijhof-kruit7357]

Thank you Ian

[@MSDFairfield]

Simplifying is always my greatest challenge and I always admire painters like Fairfield Porter who mastered this.Thanks for the step by step process in how to construct a painting and being brave enough to eliminate what does not need to be there. Appreciate you so much.

[@IanRobertsMasteringComposition]

Hi Diane, I like that being brave enough. It is an interesting point as we leave strict copying behind what we include, what we leave out, and to paraphrase another expression to have the wisdom to know the difference.

[@PatMcDonald41]

This is so valuable, Ian, to see the painted outcome and your teaching on colour. Thank you

[@IanRobertsMasteringComposition]

Glad you liked it Patrick.

[@judyfranklin9577]

Thank you again Ian for another very valuable demonstration , I am seeing street scenes in a much better way now you have explained how to simplify them .

[@IanRobertsMasteringComposition]

It depend on where you stand too of course.

[@TattoodSpirit]

Really enjoy the city/urban paintings-thanks for the painting tour and education on vAlues/hot/cool...feels like a lot to remember for a newbie, but I’m sure it will begin to stick soon. Thanks

[@rsbagley3451]

Excellent! Thank you I liked seeing you do buildings.

[@IanRobertsMasteringComposition]

Thanks Ramona.

[@mbegonasastre6938]

Thank you

[@jamieb7342]

Thank you Ian!

[@IanRobertsMasteringComposition]

My pleasure!

[@fatoomgierdien2181]

Very Interesting.... Thank You.

[@christinerothmuller2597]

Beautiful ! thank you again

[@IanRobertsMasteringComposition]

You are welcome Christine!

[@jimodonnell3682]

Thanks very much, Ian. That was helpful.

[@IanRobertsMasteringComposition]

Very welcome

[@nancykirk3683]

Thanks again, Ian!

[@IanRobertsMasteringComposition]

Hi Nancy. Hope you are doing well. Best wishes.

[@ngocthaodrawing]

Amazing video. Thank you.

[@IanRobertsMasteringComposition]

Glad you liked it!

[@BibleStudyPastor]

I like what you did with the painting, but I still don't really understand how you used color temperature in this picture. I can see warms and cools, but I don't understand the strategic use of them. This has always been hard for me. :-)

[@IanRobertsMasteringComposition]

Hi Ralph, well the warms are in the light and the cools are in the dark. So you use value to make those big design driven masses in the painting, then enhance that with the temperature shift to bring more life to the painting. Does that make sense?

[@BibleStudyPastor]

@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition Yes, I think so. I'll need to experiment with this to understand it better. :-)

[@StefanBaumann]

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[@StefanBaumann]

By the way Highlights are COOl and shadows are warm!

[@jaymalloy]

Thank you again for another great video! I'm wondering if at some point you could show the reverse process that can happen in interiors and exteriors - where the light is cool (the indirect light of the sky), and the resulting perceived warm shadows?

[@IanRobertsMasteringComposition]

I'm not sure I"ve ever really noticed it outdoors. Indoors I can see the effect of the warm shadow say in a shadow on a white cloth in a still life, but I'm not sure it would be visible in a video. I will have to check that. Thanks for the suggestion.