Pushing Color and Simplifying Values for Your Landscape Painting

The best way to simplify your values is to have more simple value patterns, not a lot of little details or little value changes. And when pushing color I'll show you how I use color to accomplish how I want to show the light in a painting.
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[@mikekean8002]

Phil this video is outstanding. Your paintings are amazing to look at, just stunning beautiful! I could not believe my eyes in the drastic difference between the photo and the finished painting. Your sense of value, color and temperature is pure perfection to my eyes. I think we tend to pay too much attention to what we see in the photo, myself included. But you certainly do not. You have mastered this skill. Is this learnable I wonder? I want to paint like you lol! These four paintings you showed in this video are just eye candy, I could stare at them forever and never get bored. Phil thanks so much for sharing your work and how you go about painting these. This made my day! Please keep them coming, just fantastic!

[@philstarke.artist]

Thanks Mike, glad they're helpful

[@LloydM100]

Value does all the work, colour gets all the praise.

[@philstarke.artist]

So true!

[@danv1061]

I really understand what you are teaching better with examples of actual paintings rather than computer generated color changes. Thanks for doing that.

[@philstarke.artist]

Glad it was helpful!

[@angelalewis4213]

I love your interpretation of these photos. The color is logical and beautiful, but I also love the addition of buildings and horses, ect. I visited Cody for the first time last month. It is unbelievably beautiful there.

[@philstarke.artist]

Thanks Angela, Cody is a great place to paint

[@angelalewis4213]

@@philstarke.artist I just drove through on my way home from the Plein Air Convention. I drove through Yellowstone on my way back to the Seattle area. I managed to do one quick plein air in Yellowstone. I was in awe of the whole area, and want to get back there as soon as possible

[@philstarke.artist]

That is a great area to paint! Watch out for grizzlies.

[@angelalewis4213]

@@philstarke.artist I didn't see any, but i know they were there!

[@gloriapowell7404]

I also loved seeing the finished paintings along with the inspiration photos.

[@philstarke.artist]

Thanks!

[@janetchang3657]

Amazing paintings comparing with the source photos. The results were stunning. Great lessons on color choices and composition. Thanks Phil.

[@philstarke.artist]

Thank you so much 😀

[@Ran_G]

You're a great teacher. Thank you.

[@philstarke.artist]

You're very welcome!

[@sherrierichard2848]

Thanks! Your examples really show us what you are trying to teach us. Very helpful.

[@philstarke.artist]

Glad it was helpful!

[@drice9842]

Thank you Phil, this was so helpful. I especially appreciated that you discussed your color choices for the shadows. I've struggled with shadow colors for a long time.

[@philstarke.artist]

Glad it was helpful!

[@JimLongCO]

This is such a wonderful video Phil. I immediately watched it a second time because there's so much there. Thank you so much!

[@philstarke.artist]

Glad it was helpful James

[@peterparkinson7952]

Excellent video Phil!!

[@philstarke.artist]

Many thanks!

[@artwithmycoffee]

Great tips, great examples and very well explained! Thank you for sharing these videos, Phil! They’re just jam packed with good stuff.

[@philstarke.artist]

Hi Christine, good to hear from you!

[@bradad2026]

This format is far more enjoyable (for me at least) than lines and squiggles and circles appearing over a digital image. Transitioning between the reference image and your interpretation of it reinforces simplification and the process of creating a painting rather than a painted photograph. Can we see some more of your process?

[@philstarke.artist]

Working on it

[@---Dana----]

Great photos and wonderful paintings. I learn so much from your videos. I now see so much more potential even in my old awful photos. As long as I can see a good value pattern, I can create the rest. Thank you! ❤️

[@philstarke.artist]

Shadow pattern, good thing to rememberr

[@PaintingandExercise]

I have watched a ton of your videos and tomorrow am going to take the plunge and do your technique from start to finish. I have already chosen my photo, cropped it down to the focal point, and sketched it onto my canvas board. Tomorrow I will work out my main value points and then get started.

[@philstarke.artist]

Sounds good! good luck!

[@kenneth1767]

Thanks, I see how you segregate the value families by simplification. Love the color choices. Great paintings, and an inspiration.

[@philstarke.artist]

Thank you so much!

[@manualfair]

great stuff! super appreciated!!!

[@philstarke.artist]

Glad to help!

[@sierragold]

I live in a remote area in Northern California-- and being a single female I do not feel safe Plein air painting by myself, so I rely on photos for my landscape painting. Trying to divorce myself from the actual colors I see in the in the photograph is a difficult task for me when painting in my studio. Your videos have been helpful in regard to try using my brain and the basic facts of color theory and color perspective to paint landscapes that read correctly and not turn into a frustrating huge mess.

[@philstarke.artist]

Thanks, Glad the videos are helpful

[@rudyadnan1445]

Brilliant 🙂👍👍👍

[@philstarke.artist]

Thanks

[@marywebb1138]

Great informative video. Thank you 😊

[@philstarke.artist]

Glad it was helpful!

[@loiseilers5058]

Very helpful video. ❤️

[@philstarke.artist]

Glad it was helpful!

[@williambradley8799]

Thank you Phil.

[@philstarke.artist]

Your welcome

[@gloriapowell7404]

The idea of adding white to distant sunlit cliffs was very helpful! I have been struggling with how to portray distant objects in sunlight yet keeping the illusion of distance. Thank you!

[@philstarke.artist]

You’re welcome Gloria, white will push the color back in the distance and cool it off slightly

[@Magnilay]

Thanks for sharing the beautiful video-the colours are wonderful -full support from yoga/meditation music channel friend ❤️🎹🎹❤️

[@philstarke.artist]

Thanks and welcome

[@4seasons546]

Really interesting to see your transformation of a photo to something more magical - good lesson thank you 😊

[@philstarke.artist]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@song4night]

Brilliantly inventive!

[@philstarke.artist]

Thanks you!

[@lisengel2498]

No doubt your Colors really sing - just so much more interesting than a plain photo. I always love to go out early mornings and late afternoons and enjoy the playfullness of the Music of Colors -- the color movements of sunrise and afternoons ( the warm color movements of moving into the in-between zones of day and night becoming more still - and for me the color movements of a scene is the music 🧡💛🩵💜)

[@philstarke.artist]

So true!

[@Sam34292]

Very helpful, love your work.

[@philstarke.artist]

Thank you Linda

[@Crap873]

Hi Phil, Love your channel and use to listen to you on your podcasts…..I feel your work has become even more amazing, it is reminiscent of Edgar Payne in my opinion. I Just subscribed as you are a fabulous teacher as well as Artist ! Thanks for making such great Content.🇨🇦

[@philstarke.artist]

Wow, thank you!

[@Coco2345ful]

I take it that you are using s split complementary color scheme yellow orange with viole the blue....always being care ful what color is dominante?

[@philstarke.artist]

I used. a full palette for these paintings

[@shahzadqurashi7728]

Amazing

[@philstarke.artist]

Thanks

[@kayser6800]

Thank you so much. I really struggle with color. I can’t figure out how to use violet.

[@philstarke.artist]

Are use violet, mostly as a modifier, a color to mute, yellow, yellow, orange, and orange.

[@MikeMcRann]

i love it

[@philstarke.artist]

thanks Mike