How to Express yourself with Colors When Painting
Hello. Today, I am here to introduce to you emotion art and one of the process on how I do some of my art work. I start with a blank canvass, 20x24 drawing sketchpad. You can get it at any art store and I just put it on the easel, so it’s just a little bit easier to work with. I get into a feeling that I can connect with or what is surfacing and today for me is the need to express. I need to share with others just something that I need to voice and so, I usually pick an image.
Today, I picked a wolf. He’s yelling it out. He’s opening his mouth and he is full force and so, this really spoke to me. This is just from a calendar that I picked up and so, I really connected with this wolf. And so, I’m going to use this image to express on to paper and see what that feels like because the need is so intense that I have to put it on paper.
And so, what I sketch it out first with is artist charcoal. Winsor and Newton is what I use. It’s a vine charcoal and it’s very easy to work with. And so, I usually just sketch out. I use my hands a lot in order to do some measurements and not get so wrapped up into what it looks like. The big thing is what is it going to feel like? And, so the lines right now are a big thing. So, the ear coming out like this and then the kind of look in there. And then the mouth, the mouth is where I really want to share the expression. So, how loud, how it’s opening up to the world and how it’s sharing with others.
Then I measure his head; it’s okay. This is definitely just a sketch. It’s a sketch of trying to get my feelings out. The mouth is really where I want to get into this. So, there’s a simple sketch of the wolf, the ears. Growling out to the world, seeing how it can just share, growling in a good way though.
So now, I bring some color in. I wanted a dark color that looks like kind of where the shadows are and look at where the shadows are like try to mimic that through color. Instead of using the exact same color, I use more of an expressionistic form of it, so some dark here and then really the greens. The greens are a cool color because right now I’m feeling kind of a not very warm like I want to be—that I’m coming to be colder but I need to work more right here in the mouth area. So, I feel the expression. Some more blue. And see how it’s lighter right here? I can use a lighter color coming. I’ll kind of go with that feeling. Right there and there’s some color on the ear. I really want to emphasize the mouth, the eye.
Then I want to bring out the feel of what is going to feel like when I talk, when I really just open my mouth and that’s one of the colors I’m going to come out where I feel very healed is right in here. The orange is really -- pinks are a big color of the moon. Purple -- now I’m getting the feeling of expressing my feeling. Then I just mix them all together. The mouth, so that’s my expression right now, so there. I’m feeling the colors. So, all you do is a grumly expression. So, there is the wolf expressing itself.
Thank you for watching and I think that I kind of got a feeling of what it could -- it doesn’t need to be perfect, you just feel it. You feel the colors. You feel the lines and that is emotion art.
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