5-Day Private Painting Workshops by Cathy Carey in Santa Fe, NM August 8 - 12 & September 12 - 16, 2011
I like to paint a color underneath that will show through and be a contrast to the top color. I find this gives a more complex look to my layers. Some of the contrasts you can try: contrasts of temperature; warm and cool, contrasts of value; light and dark, contrasts of saturation; dull versus brilliant, contrasts of texture; flat areas versus textured. Gold is a great color as the undertone for landscapes since it is a warm color and most of the outdoors (sky, trees, forests, oceans, lakes etc) are cool colors. You can add pearlescent to any color to add a shimmer to the color and a pastel to the color as an undertone. If you were doing a portrait with warm skin tones a cool pearlescent color would make a nice contract.
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