Re:The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong ...
by JKCalhoun on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @08:02PM
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As the other reply said, yeah, don't just add black.
An art teacher would tell you to paint from real life and look into the shadows and try to perceive the colors that are there. Paint those. Don't treat it as a chemistry problem.
But if you're wondering why Maxfield Parrish painted orange rocks with indigo shadows it's because in the absence of direct light (in the shadows) ambient light will fill in. And the sky, as an example, is a giant blue ambient light reflector, the grass a giant green one.
An art teacher would tell you to paint from real life and look into the shadows and try to perceive the colors that are there. Paint those. Don't treat it as a chemistry problem.
But if you're wondering why Maxfield Parrish painted orange rocks with indigo shadows it's because in the absence of direct light (in the shadows) ambient light will fill in. And the sky, as an example, is a giant blue ambient light reflector, the grass a giant green one.