06-22-2018, 02:35 AM
(06-21-2018, 05:11 AM)ThereIsNoJustice Wrote: Regarding Schmid, he talks about color harmony in his book Alla Prima. He says it's a built in aspect of light. There are theoretical explanations for why some colors work together and some don't, at a deeper level than 'use complementary colors' or those sorts of color palette generator websites. This may be what you're missing.
I have my own ideas on this but to some degree it's a matter of taste. Get a bunch of Schmid's paintings (and whoever else you admire) and color pick around. Come up with an explanation for why their color ideas seem to work in a way yours aren't just yet. It seems to me you have a tendency to go very saturated with too many colors in one image.
I looked at a bunch of images today, color picking and even painted over some of them with the saturation and color that I think I would have done it, and I think what stands out the most is there's lots of subtle color variation in the mid tones while in my images from imagination it's from one extreme to another, getting that subtlety in an image is something I find very difficult. I tried to limit my colors in the frog painting I'm working on and I think it helped out a bit but it's still not working the way I want it to. I'm not sure how to fix that problem because even if I "know" what I'm doing wrong I can't just fix it in a day, so I guess I'll just keep doing studies and try to put more thought in to how I'm painting.