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From the album: Night Photography and Lights Reflecting in Water
My view tonight! (Not much different to my view for the last couple of weeks...) Hamriyah Port at night - with some lights of some of the drilling rigs in port, reflecting in the water2 points -
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Painting Outdoors on a Full Pallet Field Day by Margaret Stanton An artist, inspired to paint the Gothic and Florentine architecture outdoors in Prague, must choose between an almost limitless range of subtle colors to use. In this medieval city, there are cooler hued buildings of stone with grayed lavenders, greens and blue browns. There are also warmer toned surfaces with ochre, yellows and oranges. Add to this an eclectic, no-rules range of color on many of the building's newly renovated surfaces, and you have a genuine, full palate field day! An artist needs to decide how to achieve color harmony in the shapes and nuances depicting these historic treasures if their next best painting is going to be a success. Rod Cameron reveals the secrets behind his choices of color in the painting titled, "St. Michelos Cathedral - Prague". Notice how he breaks down color into groups of "warm" and "cool". He tells students, "I saw the two towers in the sun as "warmer" mixtures: the thinner, taller steeple a mixture of cerulean blue and burnt sienna with white, and the main domed building a mixture of yellow ochre and burnt sienna with white." Using these warm hues as a reference point, Cameron uses a split complementary, which indicated blues, lavenders with touches of viridian green for the shadows and in the street buildings on either side. These cooler shadow colors frame the scene and provide exact compliments to the warm Hues of the Cathedral in the sunlight. To further enhance the warm atmosphere in the sunny part of this painting, the artist mixed cerulean blue into the sky. Cerulean blue, being the "warmer blue", supported the warm, sunny part of the composition and harmonized with the cerulean mixtures in the architecture. To see how easy it is to find and select complementary, split complementary and other color combinations, Rod Cameron suggests to artists to make or get a hold of a simple color wheel, found at any art supplier, and just dial up a color. In the case of Rod Cameron's painting of St. Michelos in Prague, he pointed to orange on the color wheel as his initial reference point, for the sunny surfaces of the Cathedral. The compliment of orange is ultramarine blue, but Cameron chooses the split complimentary; the colors that you find on either side of blue. The color wheel beautifully illustrates, lavenders on one side, and blues with a touch of viridian green on the other side; the split complimentary colors that Rod Cameron uses in the painting. Touches of your warm mixtures in your cool colors, and visa versa, will slightly gray things down, and go further to create great color harmony in your painting. The use of split complementary colors adds a greater range of color and more variety in your painting without sacrificing harmony. Color wheels are inexpensive and give the artist a better understanding of the color families and how they relate to each other. Even after you've memorized all the color combinations, it still fun to refer to now and then, plus, the wheel just looks cool hanging on the wall. Every studio should have one!1 point
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From the album: Jenny's Photo Album 🌻
It's 5 in the Morning. Best time to jog while there is no one outside. Stay healthy and keep doing your daily exercise routine.1 point -
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A pastel painting of Canadian Pacific Railway CP 8856 Powering through early winter snow. From an excellent photo by Canadian photographer Jim Winsor. (Photo used with Jim's very kind permission.) The photo was taken in October 2011 and Jim writes: "This was so far the most significant snowfall we have had yet this year. I braved the elements today to capture this rare for me image of such a beauty. I arrived at this location and it was dull and overcast which soon gave way to a lite blowing snowfall. This beauty could be heard off in the distance and low and behold, out of the blowing snow she came."Free1 point -
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From the album: Night Photography and Lights Reflecting in Water
A bit blurred... I done my best to move the camera with the boat as it moved down river! Photo taken from the Saphan Taksin Bridge1 point -
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From the album: Tour Prague with Artists
This is an early morning painting on the famous Charles Bridge in Prague, by Rod Cameron, and he offers this insight into the color temperature that he used. "The magical light of Prague at this time had a cool predominate cast which brings the shadows to the warmer hues of the palate. Cool light equals warm shadows or warm light gives cool shadows is the general rule. The incredible buildings of the city create an interesting sky line across the horizon and I used the tall statue on the left which had a natural gaze into the scene and the focal points of the painting." Experienced plein air painting artists in Hawaii plan to join Rod Cameron, Margaret Stanton and Jiri Balej in Prague, this spring. You can be one of them! Hotel combo Vacation/Workshop Package in the Heart of Prague - $1,400 US. Guests of attending Artists only pay for hotel, and get to enjoy all the daily tours and excursions - free!© Rod Cameron
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From the album: Prague Plein Air Painting
Prague is beautiful everywhere you turn. My husband, jiri, a Prague native and I can show you Prague. We are artists and musicians, this Spring May 25 - 31, 2010, we will host an Exciting Prague Tour and Plein Air Painting Workshop in the heart of Prague. See the insider's on this Vacation/Painting Workshop and Tour Hotel Package. Look for us on the web!© Margaret Stanton
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From the album: Prague Plein Air Painting
A Plein Air Painting created on site in Prague 2006. This coming Spring, May 25 - 31,2010, I've invited Rod Cameron, master plein air and figure painting artist, and 10 Other Artists on an exciting 5 day/ 6 night Prague Tour and Painting Workshop. Find us on the Web! And register now!© Margaret Stanton
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