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Do you wish you could paint more color harmony paintings?

Have you tried using the color wheel to achieve your color harmony paintings?

Color Harmony Paintings

Believe it or not learning to paint color harmony paintings is not as hard as it may seem at first. Many find that after using the techniques I give you here, they are able to see the world in a totally new way as they learn about color. Here are some suggestions to get you started. Once you have the basics down it will be easier to use these instructions to fit your needs, paint distinctive, and stimulating paintings. Today we learn to tell the story of color as we make harmonious paintings.

Using the artist color wheel is the place to start with your color harmony paintings. From here we learn to create a pleasing arrangement of color, producing rich, vibrant paintings.

I want to make a painting using the primary color of blue. There are many different pigments of blue to make as you will see on the wheel. As you turn the wheel many different combinations will be seen. So, let’s make a tint, tone and shade of blue. Choose Cobalt Blue for this exercise.

First make a puddle with blue adding just enough water to be fluid enough to drip off the end of your brush.

From this puddle make another puddle use enough water to make it very soupy and it creates a tint.

From the original puddle make another puddle and take enough to mix with grey making a tone of blue.

And, third, again from the original puddle make another puddle and take enough to mix with Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Umber to make a lively black or dark color creating shade.

As we continue to learn to make color harmony paintings, decide what colors to use with blue. Turn your wheel to the Illustration of Color Relationships or Harmonies side, decide if you want to paint a complimentary, split complementary, triad or tetrad color scheme.

For the sake of simplicity choose the split-complementary color scheme and find the triangle in the center, turn the dial to blue and notice that the complementary colors are yellow-orange and red-orange. These are tertiary colors, in other words one primary color and one secondary color mixed together.

As you see, choosing harmonious colors is the first step to color harmony paintings.

I have made a tremendous career out of knowing how to draw caricatures for over 30 years and I have been paid very richly for something that has been fun and easy to do. It has amazed me just how many secret markets for this sort of work I have had to myself. So since I am about to be off the scene for good, I thought it might be a worthy idea to pass on my TRADE SECRETS, so some other up and coming artists like yourself could benefit from all my hard-earned wisdom, tips, tricks and techniques.

Learn To Draw Caricatures

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Suppose you could find a way that guaranteed your artistic success with a constant flow of work that most other commercial artists or illustrators miss out on or overlook completely, what would that do to the lifestyle you could be leading, just by learning my secrets on how to draw caricatures?

Imagine … being able to find out the secret formula to caricature success, from someone who has built a solid career over the past 30 years as you share in his secret ways to learn to draw caricatures and make a little money if you fancy as a caricature artist.

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Easy Step By Step Lessons

Think about it for a moment

What you can learn from me could take you years to figure out on your own. Not only will I show you how to learn to draw caricatures, I will be showing you exactly where to go to actually earn a little exta money.

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While other guests at a party are standing around making small talk, YOU are there making people smile as you dish out FUN by the “bucket load” with your crazy cartoons of the guests.

Simply put, Caricaturing is fun and the best part is you can get paid to do it and paid quite handsomely I might add! There are tons of work assignments for this type of work and with the right instruction you too can find this work flow that simply remains consistent and provides repeat business year after year.

But figuring out how to draw Caricatures that people “love and are prepared to pay for” is the Hard Part …

It could take you years and could cost you a small fortune to figure out just the right combination of technique and approach that make some cartoonists
“highly successful and in constant demand”
while others fall flat on their faces.

Taking beautiful pictures every time can be challenging. Taking beautiful landscape pictures consistently can be near impossible. Until now! Read on and learn the tricks the professional photographer uses for outstanding results on a regular basis. Learn how to properly deal with the subject matter, the point of view, the lighting, and some technical pointers that you may not have thought of. By the end of this article you will be taking beautiful landscape pictures on a relatively consistent basis.

The first thing any great landscape picture needs is a landscape. You must be willing to travel a little as you can only shoot your backyard so many times. Get out there and look for the beautiful vistas, whether they be in the city or the country. Don’t always look for a bright sunny day, although they are good too, to go out to shoot. A few clouds in the sky can add a striking element to your photo.

A little inclement weather can be good for a landscape as well. Include some thunder-heads, a hard rain, or lightly falling snow in your picture, and enhance the look of an otherwise mediocre shot. Even getting some motion in the photo is helpful. Leaves blowing on the wind, a stream falling down a rocky slope, or waves breaking on the beach, are stunning images if captured right.

Now that you have found something to photograph, take a look at it from different points of view. Lay down on the ground, or climb a tree, pan a little from side to side. Just look at the subtle differences these actions will provide, and choose the best view.

Your different point of view might also want to include a point of interest. Perhaps something in the foreground to give your photo some perspective. You may wish to make the foreground the dominant aspect of the shot, or you could make the sky the dominating factor. Either way you don’t want to place the horizon in the middle of the frame. Showing more of the sky will set it up as the dominant part,and showing more of the ground, or foreground, will do the opposite.

When deciding on the point of view that you are shooting from, you want to take into account the direction that you are looking. Looking from the south to the north is preferred, but from north to south is almost as good. Either way, you want the light to be crossing the photo. This will enhance the shadows, and thereby the contours of your landscape, resulting in a much more exciting picture.

Lighting brings us to the consideration of what time of day to shoot. Generally, shooting around dawn, or dusk, will bring life to your landscapes. Clouds are considerably more vibrant when lit with the various hues of a striking sunset. The dawn and dusk hours are referred to as the “golden ” hours, as that is when the light is the warmest.

Now, to the technical talk. For the most part, when shooting landscapes you want a greater depth of field. This means that everything in the picture is in focus. You achieve this by using a small opening, or aperture, for the shot. This is referred to as the “f-stop,” and the higher the number of the f-stop, the smaller the opening. You will need to slow down the speed of your shot to keep the exposure balanced. This should not be a problem if you use a tripod, which you should for most of your landscape pictures.

If you are trying to get movement in the picture (as discussed earlier), you will want a really long exposure, possibly as long as 1 or 2 seconds. The golden hours are the best time of day for this as you want to be shooting in less light. Also, you will need to use the highest f-stop on your camera to let in the least amount of light. This will bring everything that is not moving into very sharp focus, giving you a very dramatic photograph.

Another technical “trick” to get beautiful landscape pictures is the use of color correction and GND (graduated neutral density) filters. These are filters that screw onto the end of your lens and affect the light coming into the camera. For example, a red color correction filter will darken the color of the sky adding more drama to the photo, whereas a yellow filter will cause a greater degree of separation at the horizon.

A GND filter will affect the intensity of the light, by allowing less light at the top of the picture, gradually letting in more light as it goes to the bottom. This is especially effective in sunset shots or snowy mountains with green fields in the foreground. There are many other types of filters, and a little research will tell you what they are and what effect they will have on the final exposure.

Experimenting with the above ideas, and technical points, will greatly increase your ability to consistently take beautiful landscape pictures. So keep on looking for that perfect shot, and don’t be disappointed if they all aren’t, just keep on searching out and shooting those landscapes. And don’t forget to have some fun while you are at it!!

One of the great things about photography is that everyone can do it. While not just anyone will be able to take professional level pictures, the amateur can follow a few tips to produce photographs that he or she can feel very proud of. Browse the following tips to improve your pictures today.

Get closer when you are taking photos. Especially when you are taking a series of shots, from which you will chose the best, get in there. The better your scene fills the frame, the better the overall picture will be. Take several shots, so you can get the nicest shot possible.

Be aware of whether or not your photos are over or under-exposed. You can figure this out by learning how to read and interpret the histogram on your camera. It measures the exposure of each shot and will let you know if it is over or under-exposed so that you can prevent that next time.

If possible, avoid using the flash that you find on most cameras nowadays. It tends to give the subject ‘red eye’, and it removes a lot of the shadow that can create depth in a picture. If you have to use a flash, such as an indoor nighttime shot, keep your subject away from walls. This way you won’t end up with an ugly black shadow that resembles an outline.

Make sure you have the right lighting before taking a photograph. Lighting is perhaps the most important factor in producing a good black and white photograph, because it affects the texture, contrast and shape of the image. Side lighting can produce some dramatic photographs as it creates shadows and highlights the edges of shapes.

Change the direction of your camera’s flash to avoid the appearance of red eye. When a flash goes off directly in line with someone’s eyes, the result can be red eye. Reducing red eye will improve the quality of your pictures and give your subjects a more realistic appearance.

When photographing people, try to avoid having anyone that they know standing on the sidelines and watching the photograph being taken. It will almost always lead to feelings of self-consciousness if your subject knows they are being watched. This will, in turn, lead to unnatural, posed images that nobody will like.

Blur can ruin an otherwise, great picture. There are a few ways you can fix blur. One way is to assure the camera is still. You can do this by using a tripod or bracing yourself so it is easier to keep the camera still. You can also use your camera’s action mode. This will automatically adjust your camera’s speed settings and help stop the blur.

Select what will appear in your photograph. A good picture should be like a small window showing a certain aspect of your subject. Do not try showing too much. If you want to give a more general impression of something, take a series of pictures rather than a single photograph with no real focus or details.

Give your subject something to look at to avoid direct eye contact with the lens. You are sure to get more natural looking photos if you do not have them looking directly into the lens. Have them focus on something behind you or looking to one side or the other.

So much goes into taking a picture that learning about it from a written text may seem cumbersome. Getting out there and practicing some of the tips listed above, will clarify their meaning much better. Photography can become more meaningful if you are prepared with the proper equipment to capture the perfect moment.