Chapter 4 - How to Make Colors Vibrate

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Marco Bucci

inThe Color Survival Guide

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Chapter 4 - How to Make Colors Vibrate

Lesson by

Marco Bucci

in The Color Survival Guide

274K

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This chapter will give you important models for understanding how to keep colors active and interesting, yet still reading as simple hues.

Elmari Van Zyl

26d

Wow, that was great! Thank you.

Yvonne Oliea

28d

Is this for computer art? I am a traditional painter. Thank you.

@prism

16h

He works digitally but the teaching works for any artist. I am a traditional oil painter & this course is very good. The information on cooler & warmer temperatures is worth the entire course. And I'm only half way through it!

@patruvius

2mo

Does anyone know how to apply this when the local color is black? Like black colored clothing for example.

Martha Muniz

2mo

Having something perfectly black, like Vantablack level of black, is rather rare as there will typically be some slight hue to it, even if it's really dark. If you've ever worn different black clothing pieces that didn't seem to match, you might've noticed this difference in their hues--one may be slightly more blue while another more brown or purple. This could be something you use and emphasize to create vibration. You can also use the surrounding environment, especially the color of the light source, to add color to it--like the boy's hair in Marco's illustration shown in the video at 3:55. It has color variations both from the blue/green of the forest and sky as well as the warmer yellow-green from the light coming in on the right.

Emanuele Lattanzi

5mo

Tried to add some color vibration on this piece, amazing lesson as always!

Ana

1yr

Awesome content! Thank you Marco!

Claire Yuan

2yr

Hi Marco. I am still focusing on adding more color variation while maintaining color harmony. I gained a deeper understanding of how color travels after rewatching this lecture. Mainly, by using the contrast of color, it does not take color to complete the full journey to the "opposite" side in order to show variation and contrast. In this painting, I sneaked in some blue and purple into the shadow of grapes. I added green and red to the pear. I also played with soft, semi-soft, and hard edges after watching some of your YouTube videos. Thank you for the quality lectures. I will continue to apply these concepts in more still life paintings from life (so far these are all painted from pictures). I am also ready to do some master studies as shown in the next lecture.

Sebastian Carrillo

2yr

Here are some attemps. I think I'm getting a bit more comfortable with color, I'm still trying to give more saturation to my pieces. Any suggestion will be very much appreciated!

@chortlesnail

2yr

Nice! I'm wondering, would the shadow under the apple gradually fade out as it got farther from the apple?

Nancy Yocom

2yr

Looks great!

Claire Yuan

2yr

Hi Marco, thank you for the course. You really helped me understand the temperature relationship and color harmony. Each color study I did, I tried to incorporate a new lesson learned from you into my painting. In this chapter, I tried to make the "white wall" of this garden more visually interesting using a variety of colors. Thanks again, I can't wait to see how the next chapter will inspire me. Critiques from everyone are welcome. I hope in the future I can learn how to achieve more loose but realistic texture for a variety of subjects. I kind of stumbled a little on the rocks and trees.

Nancy Yocom

2yr

The wall is my favorite part. Looks great.

Sebastian Carrillo

2yr

Beautiful work, specially about the amount of color you managed to put together armoniously in the wall. My only commentary would be that there could be few hard edges in general so it feels more atmospheric. Beautiful practice again!

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Tatiana Larocque

2yr

I am really finding myself quite entertained by the colors i can now squeeze into my paintings and am looking forward of pushing the boundaries more and more! thank youuuuu! @Marco Bucci

@baobunart

1yr

The colours are great but the two people at the bottom of the drawing stand out too much compared to the soft surroundings, making them seem unreal.

Nancy Yocom

2yr

Cool, I like how you added the contrasting color in the green.

sand noy

2yr

Really helped me understand how colours go together. I made this painting right after watching this video, inspired by the green monster. If anyone has any critiques or advice please say.

Brian Callander

2yr

This is a cool character, but for the lesson it would be good to see it in the context of an environment, since that's where the colours get a lot of their context. In Bucci's examples, the light areas are pushed a lot warmer from the sun, shadow areas can take on colours from the environment, often colder if facing the sky, warmer if facing the ground, etc. It looks like this guy is lit only by ambient light from the sky? Painting the surroundings would help the viewer understand.

Steffen Anzivino

2yr

Found @Marco Bucci because Stan did a quick video with him for Christmas. Started with a rendition of a Christmas song. Automatically liked him. I however had no interest in painting. After that video I thought it was something that perhaps I could do. Maybe I wasn't interested in painting because I was intimidated by it. Now, now I want to paint. I have gone through his 10-minutes to better painting. I won't ramble, but I am getting this course for fathers day. I am stoked. If you read this comment Mr. Bucci, thank you for being passionate and fun. Am I am glad that you make an outstanding effort to teach in a way that communicates what you want to say very well. I'm not sure if I am learning well, but when I watch your videos I really FEEL like I understand well. I was beside myself to discover you were going to be on proko offering a course. All in all, thank you.