Comments on: How Creating Colour Studies Can Improve Your Paintings https://www.howtopastel.com/2017/02/creating-colour-studies/ Info, opinion, and training on how to pastel with artist Gail Sibley BFA, MA Tue, 18 Oct 2022 04:06:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2017/02/creating-colour-studies/#comment-48779 Tue, 18 Oct 2022 04:06:47 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=6449#comment-48779 In reply to Valerie Dunne.

Thanks Valerie! And glad to hear you found it interesting!!

]]> By: Valerie Dunne https://www.howtopastel.com/2017/02/creating-colour-studies/#comment-48657 Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:13:56 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=6449#comment-48657 In reply to Cliff Riviere.

Love the analogous colours, number 1 I think.
I found this very interesting thank you.

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2017/02/creating-colour-studies/#comment-30323 Tue, 08 Jun 2021 05:22:59 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=6449#comment-30323 In reply to Carole Degnan.

Carole I LOVE hearing this!! All the colour studies work off your chosen thumbnail. It’s all about playing with colour combos! Have fun and experiment. Remember, keep them small and fast so they don’t become laborious. Let’s keep the fun in there!

]]> By: Carole Degnan https://www.howtopastel.com/2017/02/creating-colour-studies/#comment-30317 Mon, 07 Jun 2021 21:18:51 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=6449#comment-30317 This was very helpful, thank you. I use a color study but never understood fully what exactly I was doing with it, but I think now I think I do! I am going with the first study, I see the values clearly. Perhaps as I grow more confident, the others hopefully will come into play

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2017/02/creating-colour-studies/#comment-25844 Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:03:26 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=6449#comment-25844 In reply to Herbert.

And I love hearing that Herbert!! And they really ARE fun as well as fundamental!! These studies are a great way to be doing something in the studio when you don’t really feel like doing anything. And doing them often gets the juices flowing and the desire to paint becomes overwhelming. Yay!!

]]> By: Herbert https://www.howtopastel.com/2017/02/creating-colour-studies/#comment-25810 Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:19:47 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=6449#comment-25810 Hi Gail, loved this article. I’ve never done these colour studies, just dove right in, but always had collisions on the way, or crashes, that disrupt the painting. This experimenting and selecting the base layers looks fun(damental!). I will start doing these.

Thank you so much!

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2017/02/creating-colour-studies/#comment-3605 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 21:02:44 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=6449#comment-3605 In reply to Susan Klinger.

Glad you found this helpful Susan and look forward to hearing how it goes for you! It’s pretty amazing how one change in the top layer can make such a difference!

]]> By: Susan Klinger https://www.howtopastel.com/2017/02/creating-colour-studies/#comment-3530 Sat, 30 Sep 2017 13:28:24 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=6449#comment-3530 Reading this late, but so glad I did! Very helpful!! I really like how you used different first layer colors, but then showed how using the same second layer colors still creates a very different mood. I always do a notan study, but have never done color studies. I plan to try this!

]]> By: Bangish https://www.howtopastel.com/2017/02/creating-colour-studies/#comment-2280 Thu, 23 Feb 2017 23:53:37 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=6449#comment-2280 In reply to Gail Sibley.

Oh yes! I read your interview of him and i was inspired. Speaking of the mediums i was talking about ; oil color or acrylic.

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2017/02/creating-colour-studies/#comment-2268 Thu, 23 Feb 2017 05:18:15 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=6449#comment-2268 In reply to Irene cohen.

Yes, yes, get those pastels out!!! How wonderful to know the blog engendered this desire!
I know as a student how difficult it is to do preliminary work – you don’t want to waste precious time and energy doing what seems like a waste of effort. Yet usually putting in the time ahead of painting does actually payoff.
Good luck with your examples and hope they help to motivate your students 🙂

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