Jones Sketchbook

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Hey Jones, some great improvement from the last time I checked!

I was lookin at that still life you got up there and noticed some of the colors were looking a little "muddy" so I color picked one of the dark colors on the banana and noticed that most of the colors you were choosing are on the gray side of the color area.

Here's an example of color picking one of the dark colors on the banana you painted. Notice the picker is on the bottom left. You usually want to stay away from that area when working with colors.


Just try to remember that anything shifting more to the:
- LEFT - Gray
- RIGHT - Intensity in Color
- UP - Light
- DOWN - Dark

If you work too much on the gray side your work will come across as "muddy looking"

If you wanted a really dark color I would choose something more to the bottom right so that your banana has more color. An extreme example:


If I were going for the dark parts of a banana in particular I would probably choose a color something like this, because I know bananas usually have some red in them and I would stay away from going too dark unless I needed to.



Try color picking some areas on this banana. You'll notice the colors are staying more on the RIGHT side of the color area and anything that looks dark is NOT going all the way to very BOTTOM of the color area.



Anyway, I hope this wasn't too confusing. I myself am not an expert when it comes to colors so take everything I say with a grain of salt. This is just stuff I noticed over time painting from photos and life. I hope that some of this made sense.