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Beyond the palette + Edges

🕑 Added 2023-01-09 21:35:07 +0000 UTC

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Michael Klein

Thanks Ellen. Another advantage to a lighter ground is if and when the painting goes transparent over time, colors appear bright instead of showing the darker ground underneath

This was a great demonstration and explanation of how to create interesting edges. I also appreciated seeing you use Oleogel and painting over white panel to achieve higher chroma....been wondering why it's been elusive... Your teaching is most helpful

Thank you Michael,Thats a great way to think about them, Optical and physical. Lovely little painting too.You make it look easy but I know it's not.

That was a great lesson on edges. If possible please talk about shape designing in your next video. As a beginner one faces great difficulty in designing organic shapes in paint.

Michael Klein

Gray, you contribute such elegant descriptions of my chaotic teaching. Thank you for that!

This was most helpful -- both parts. I appreciate seeing how the chroma stays brighter on the panel when thinned out with oil/oleogel as contrasted with the immediate opacity that kicks in the moment a high-chroma pure color is gradated out with white. I've never before consciousness realized this difference although I may have sensed it in practice. That distinction, as well as the difference between an optically softened edge vs. a physically softened one, then tuning-into how you are increasing or lessening brush pressure, turning to the edge of the brush vs. squishing the bristles, and the really sharp-edge work of a palette knife, all to shape edges . . . so helpful. I'm looking forward to watching my practice shift from being less aware of both these aspects to being more aware -- trusting it will make a difference. Thank you so much.