COLOR TIME

The colors of the Master’s paintings and…yours

For this article, I leave the pen, or rather the keyboard, to Alain Huet. We both share a passion for art and the desire to… Read More »The colors of the Master’s paintings and…yours

Hélène Mauri – humanity in her photographic mission

Hélène Mauri is a photographer. Color or black and white? It depends, she doesn’t rationalize; color, technique, the same fight: so well mastered, integrated, digested,… Read More »Hélène Mauri – humanity in her photographic mission

Challenge #7 The Magic Hour Palette

What colors evoke this magical moment for you, after sunset and before nightfall? That moment when lights come on here and there but still struggle… Read More »Challenge #7 The Magic Hour Palette

Challenge #6 Capturing Light Fluctuations

Aren’t light fluctuations wonderful? Seeing it glisten on the water, transforming itself as the day goes by, intensifying in the mountains, piercing the fog, filtering… Read More »Challenge #6 Capturing Light Fluctuations

Challenge #4 Playing with Complements

In the previous challenge, I suggested that you begin your exploration of the world of colors by limiting yourself to a few, thus restricting your… Read More »Challenge #4 Playing with Complements

Complementary colors (I)

The notion of color’s complement is important. It binds two colors together. Mastering this relationship will allow you to better control the interaction of colors,… Read More »Complementary colors (I)

Light and Color

Light is fundamental in our perception of color. Sometimes it charms us: in a shop we are seduced by the color of a piece of… Read More »Light and Color

Challenge #3 Explore a limited palette

*Vinciane Lacroix, Result of this challenge applied to photography (CC-BY-SA)*

If you like colors, you will be tempted to combine them in numbers, whether to decorate your living room or to make a canvas. Or else, you will not know where to start, and, for fear of making a mistake in taste, you will stay with blacks, greys and whites, in short, with neutral colors.

In the first case, you would take too many risks, because the more different shades there are, the more difficult it is to manage their interactions. In the second case, you wouldn’t dare enough, you would remain in the comfort of neutrality.

The solution is to start with a limited palette and explore all the harmonies it offers; this is the purpose of this third challenge.

You now know the GORC recipe: Getting inspired-Observe-Reproduce-Create.

Challenge #2: Getting started in chiaroscuro

In this new challenge, we shall learn the technique of chiaroscuro. But what is chiaroscuro? When using such a technique? Lest us Get inspired by… Read More »Challenge #2: Getting started in chiaroscuro

Françoise Lesage, Nature Obliges

Françoise loves color so much that she hardly dares to talk about it. Perhaps does she fear of reducing the emotion that color gives her? Would she feel like betraying the special relationship she has with color, a relationship she formed as a child? At that time already, contemplating a large box of colored pencils brought her immense joy.