Celebrating Color

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What are My Top 5 Color Mixing Blogs?

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During the past few months, I have been cleaning up my website. What do I mean? I ventured into a potentially scary place to see if I had any broken URLs. I discovered I had hundreds of them throughout my site. YIKES! Apparently Google does not like this. I don’t know I was being punished/neglected, but I assume that I was.

 

Once I recovered from a sense of overwhelm, I dove in to tackle these broken links. It was a slow and arduous task, as I had over 400 broken URLs…OMG! However, it also took me down memory lane and gave me the opportunity to see what I had written during these past many years. I was astounded to learn my first blog post was in 2010 and I have over 210 blog posts. Cool!

 

Then I thought I would re-visit my Google Analytics to ascertain my top color mixing blogs. Again, I was not prepared for what I would learn. As you know, most of my content is about color, but it is always interesting to see which content is searched the most frequently.

Since not all of you are aware of the amount of content I have on my site, I thought I would share with you the top five posts. The below montage provides some clues.color mixing blogsWhich do you think are the most popular color mixing blogs?  ~~~drum roll~~~~~

My Top 5 Color Mixing Blogs Are:

#2. The Four Steps to Mixing Sage Green of the Southwest

https://www.celebratingcolor.com/four-steps-mixing-sage-green

#3.  What is the Complement of Pink?

https://www.celebratingcolor.com/what-is-complement-of-pink/

#4. How do You Mix Pink?

https://www.celebratingcolor.com/how-mix-pink/

#5. How to Make Yellow Dark

https://www.celebratingcolor.com/how-to-make-yellow-dark/

Are you surprised? I know I am.

While you are visiting these color mixing blogs, you are invited to search via the categories located on the right sidebar for a topic that may interest you.

BTW, my website is all cleaned up, yeh! Sure hope this makes the search engines happy.

Please share with fellow artists and friends.

PS If you would like to venture into the broken URL arena, this is the free software that I used. http://brokenlinkcheck.com

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“Colorscapes” Solo Show Invitation!

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You are cordially invited to my upcoming solo show

colorscapes solo art show

Opening reception:  Friday, April 2, 2021

Time:  5-8pm

Location: G44 Gallery

1785 S. 8th Avenue, Suite A, 80905, Colorado Springs, CO

 Call 720-951-0573 or visit www.g44gallery.com

Hours: Thursday-Saturday 12pm – 5pm or by an appointment.

Show dates:  April 2 – April 30th

How does color impact you?

Are there colors you love and/or despise? Why?

This exhibition will give you the opportunity to “try-on” a number of different colors and color palettes all in one space.

Colorscapes will feature over 15 new paintings. All of them celebrate color!

Wwhen you come to the reception colorful spirits are encouraged! 🙂

I also look forward to presenting an Artist Talk don Saturday, April 17th at 3pm. Reservations via G44 Gallery are required because space is limited.

How Do You Mix Turquoise?

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A few of you have asked me, “How do you mix turquoise?” Even though I include many blues in my paintings, I don’t think I have consciously mixed turquoise. Curiosity got the best of me.

When we think of turquoise, many of us probably think of the stone. As you can see here, there is a fairly large range of hues.mix turquoiseThis got me thinking. What is the difference between aqua, turquoise and teal? Google did not disappoint. Here is one photo my researched revealed. I find it interesting because I have probably referred to all three of these hues as “turquoise” as some time or another . How about you?

mix turquoise

Here is One Approach to How to Mix Turquoise?

I did a little experimenting and determined the three main tube colors needed for mixing turquoise are: blue, white and yellow. The next questions are: which blues and which yellows? Intuitively, I made an assumption that my blue would be a green-blue and my yellow would be a green-yellow. However, after further thought, I decided I needed to include a red-blue and an orange-yellow to see what would happen. I wanted to see if I would be surprised. [Read more…]

How to Mix a Bright Purple!

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You want to mix a purple, so you grab your red and blue. Correct? But then you mix your colors and it is not the purple you want. Why?

I have heard many  artists – no matter the medium they use – complain that they do not know how to mix a bright purple. There are three main reasons, IMHO.

  1. Painters are not consciously aware of the color bias of their reds and blues.
  2. Too many painters have alizarin crimson on their palettes.
  3. Painters do not know the significant role complementary colors play when mixing all colors ….it is not embedded into their brains.

What Does Color Bias Have to Do with How to Mix Bright Purple?

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What Are the Four Stages of Learning?

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Are there stages of adult learning? Yes there are. Sometimes we resist them or forget they are a part of the learning process.

As a life long learner, it never ceases to amaze me how the four stages of learning repeat themselves. In other words, I can’t skip a step, though I would love to. I am sure you would also, particularly when acquiring a skill, technique or knowledge that seems to take so long.

I refer to them as the four stages of learning. They are also known as the “four stages of competence” and the “four levels of teaching.”

What Are the Four Stages of Learning?

In sequence, they are:

1. Unconscious incompetence

2. Conscious incompetence

3. Conscious competence

4. Unconscious competence

Can you relate to any or all of the above with a recent learning experience?

What is Unconscious incompetence?

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