• Special message: •Put these dates on your calendar• May 21-Dianne's YouTube Live Chat-2 p.m. Eastern-Topic:
Difference between Color and Hue May 24-Dianne's Online Workshop: Mastering Hues in Your Painting-Registration opens May 2. Watch for the announcement. During the time when artists were beginning to break away from imagery, one path painting took was to eliminate details and give attention to color, value and shape or texture. A reference like this... ...might have been interpreted similar to this. Value and color became composing elements rather than ways to describe. As this abstracting movement progressed, images became less important unto themselves and eventually totally
disappeared from mainstream painting. If an image stimulated an idea, not much evidence of the reference itself remained. Instead, its shapes, colors, and values became the content. As a consequence, something like this might have resulted from our reference. Or if the emotional expression or rhythm were the stimulus for the artist, the same scene could trigger something similar to this. These artists fall into the Expressionists genre of painting. A more analytical approach might have caused it to look like this--an example of purely objective Abstraction painting. Today, artists who prefer total abstraction or expression or a combination of the two-abstract expressionism- still use color, value, shape, line, texture, size and direction as tools to express and organize the making of the
painting. Here's the kicker: so do realistic painters. Those elements make up the universal visual language. It is impossible to create a painting without them! And, the
principles of using them are the same, whether abstracting or working with images. Enjoy a weekend of delightful surprises! During my Language of Painting series, I explained the role of our visual elements. If you'd like to review those roles to better understand the behavior of elements, here are the links to each of those
discussions: Color --Value -- Shape -- Texture -- Size -- Line and Direction
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