When constructing a watercolor painting, one must work from light to dark. Otherwise, you easily miss out on watercolor’s unparalleled quality as a conveyer of color and mood. What is “Value” in Watercolor? In watercolor technique, “value” refers to the color tone or degree of brightness in a color. It’s a central concept in painting […]
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Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian philosopher and founder of anthroposophy, held a particular interest in color symbolism and their spiritual and psychological significance. He viewed colors as expressions of the soul’s state and believed that colors could have a healing and harmonizing effect on humans. Inherent Properties of Colors According to Steiner, colors can be divided
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“Goethe’s Theory of Color” is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1810. In this book, Goethe explored the subjective experience of colors and challenged the common Newtonian understanding of colors as an objective property of light. The image in this article was painted by Joseph Karl Stieler in 1828. What Does Goethe’s
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No matter what type of painting or other color technique you wish to work with, it’s important to understand and create a color wheel, and learn about complementary colors.You may have heard the term “complementary” before, but did you know that there are many other forms of complementary elements in an image, beyond just colors?
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