![]() ![]() Early on, efforts might require more planning and thinking, and feel awkward subtle nuances of expression might be missed easily by non-native speakers. Much like a language student yearns to make the switch from translating each word to speaking effortlessly, a painter’s goal is to switch from thinking intellectually about color combinations to thinking instinctively, using color intuitively and with expression. Spending time with color, playing around, taking risks, and practicing have proven to be the best ways to boost color confidence and fluency. But like language, color also can be learned, practiced, and spoken by all. Just as some people seem to have an ear for language and can pick up new ones easily, a color sense is more intuitive for some than for others. Thinking of color as a language has always made sense to me. ![]() A profusion of possibilities might, in fact, be overwhelming without a few guiding principles about how colors behave and interact in order to help give our new words expression and impact. When learning a new language, a long list of vocabulary words can only take us so far. But, learning to speak the language of color fluently requires more than just amassing a great selection of colors. Learning to use those colors effectively is similar to learning to speak a language: Each pastel stick forms a part of one’s color vocabulary, and the more we have, the more we can say. A solid understanding of hue, chroma, value, and temperature - combined with playful experimentation - translates to color fluency.īy Jeanne Rosier Smith I sketched Marsh Musings(9×12) using a palette of 12 pastels.Īmong artists, we pastelists seem to have a special relationship with color, drawn to the medium by the seductive array of pigments ready at our fingertips. ![]()
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