Learning objectives
■ Understand and use colour temperature
■ Follow an oil-painting layering process
■ Try new mark-making ideas
The best paintings have lots of range, in other words, contrast. When you paint you should make as much contrast as possible, because it will make your pictures more effective.
The most important range is tonal value. It there is lots of contrast between the lightest lights and the darkest darks in your painting, it will be dramatic and eye catching. Seventy per cent of what the human eye sees is black and white, while only 30 per cent of our vision recognises colour. You could say that our black-and-white vision tells us where we are, and colour tells us how to feel about it. Colour is emotional and black and white is structural.
Other contrasts
