Use an Artist Day Planner – Achieve Your Goals Faster

Day Planner

Using the artist day planner and achieving your artistic goals

faster, go hand in hand. What better time than the new year to begin using a day planner.

Personally, I’ve tried the new, wonderful electronic day planners and haven’t had good results. The thought and procedure to keep appointments, goals and personal information in the electronic devices so common today just doesn’t seem to flow for me. Does this seem true to you also? Working in the corporate world, a large desk calendar was used to keep track of appointments, meetings and vacation/sick leave time.

Now that I’m working from home, my calender has been reduced to day planner size.

Many years ago I received a brown, leather day runner and I’ve always used it to keep appointments, etc. Choosing the type day planner page is important. There are many different types but my personal choice is 3 days on one side and 4 days on the other side. This type planner is flat and the whole week is on the open page. Also included in this type day planner are calendars of the present month, next month and yearly.

Valuable also is the personal pages where information from sizes to grocery lists can be at your fingertips.

This type day planner is all you need to become more efficient,

keep your goals on track and achieve the organized life you want to live.

The paper day planner is probably the oldest way of planning, but it is the fastest, easiest way to keep your day, week, month or year moving in an orderly fashion!

I would love comments about your favorite way to keep your artistic day running smoothly.

Did you notice the button in the top right corner? Please leave your name and email address and you will receive the MP3 that talks about goal setting. Guideing you to an e-book, written by an artist for artists, an easy and complete way to set and keep your goals.

Ellene
Ellene Breedlove Davis

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Drawing Inspiration for Paintings Through the Color Wheel

by Ellene

Drawing inspiration for paintings

through the color wheel is just a matter of understanding information given on the wheel itself.

In this series of information found on the Color Wheel, I’ve chosen the color blue to follow.

Inspirations for Paintings

On the side that reads “Artist’s Color Wheel” start with…
Red, which is a primary color, when blue is added the color purple is created.
Roll the wheel around to the next primary color, place the blue primary color section over it and we’ve created Green.
Naturally when the blue is placed over the blue section it remains blue.

Now let’s take the blue color and match it with…
the secondary colors, Orange, Green and Violet. When Blue is painted with Orange it makes a dull dark green, suitable for a dark color in the landscape.
Placing the Blue section over Green makes another landscape color of a bright green. This is how the Tertiary or Intermediate colors are formed.

I think you are beginning to see how finding these colors offer an

inspiration for paintings

Explore just a little bit more and discover…
how the blue used with Tertiary colors adds another deminsion to your color palette. Adding Blue to Yellow-Green, a cool color, will give a soft yellow-green, which would be good for highlights in a landscape painting.
Add Blue to the Blue-Green and a beautiful Teal color is found. Blue-Violet doesn’t change so let’s go on to
Red-Violet – and the color become much more purple and intense.

Usually in watercolor painting we prefer not to use the color black, which is all colors mixed together and a lifeless, useless color. It is possible to mix a dark color without using black. See the example above of Red-Orange-Blue. This color is very dark and intense, thus making a dark color without using Black.

Do you know the warm and cool colors and how to find them on the color wheel? If color is our

inspiration for paintings

then we must know the aggressive and receding colors as they are found on the color wheel.

Reds, Oranges and Yellows are the aggressive (warm) colors…otherwise known as Sun colors. Colors such as these cool colors are Greens, Blues and Violets are sky and water colors. These colors take the eye away from your subject whereas the warm colors make your subject seem closer. In landscapes or when painting backgrounds the cool colors are a good choice. Remember to make them cooler and more gray so that you have good arieal perspective in your painting.

The warm colors are used for objects closer to the viewer. They also have much more detail and are painted with a more saturated color.

Is your goal for the coming year to learn more about drawing inspiration for paintings from the color wheel?

Read the “Importance of Color – Emotional and Spiritual” at and htpp://bit.ly/sep0Gg learn how these suggestions will help you show more emotion by setting the mood in your paintings. This post will also offer inspiration for paintings as colors are selected.

Picture of the Color Wheel used from Jerry’s Artarama.

Ellene

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Find Artistic Color Harmony Using Discordant Colors from the Color Wheel

by Ellene

Artistic color harmony is easy to find using the Munsell Color Wheel.

According to Wikipedia “In colorimetry, the Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three color dimensions: hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity). It was created by Professor Albert H. Munsell in the first decade of the 20th century”

Dr Munsell measured color in a way that had not been known before. Being an artist and art teacher he wanted to find a better way of mixing colors and achieving better color harmony.

Color Harmony

Fast forward many years where I find an extremely well written book, “Color Harmony in you Paintings”, written by Margaret Kessler.

Being an oil painter at the time, this book appealed to me for several reasons but one was because it demonstrated and used the Munsell Color System. Since this book came into my possession I’ve studied this system and used it to achieve more artistic color harmony in my paintings.

In this post how to use the discordant colors of blue and orange for an example, will be explored. In the last post “Color Harmony Paintings Achieved Through a Split Complimentary Color Scheme” http://bit.ly/vYAZJH, a study of the color wheel and color harmony was started.

In her “Color Harmony in your Paintings” book, Margaret Kessler gives a wheel using tube color names and also furnishes a diagram to make and use with this particular color wheel. After using this method of painting my colors stayed brighter, it was easier to decide which color I needed to use – where and so on.

So, now to the colors of today – Blue and Orange – and using Kessler’s colors on the color wheel. When the transparent diagram is placed over the wheel with Phthalo Blue being the dominant color, Cad Red Light is the complementary color. That is probably not too surprising to you but, the discordant colors could be a surprise. In this example they are Red-Violet and Yellow-Green.

“The Red-Violet could be Venetian Red, Rose Madder, Alizarin Crimson or Quinacridone Red
The Yellow-Green could be Lemon Yellow, Cad. Yellow Pale or Cad. Yellow Light.” Margaret Kessler. When these analogous colors are used in a painting they are bright and cheerful, giving the painting an uplifting and happy feeling.

Neutrals and semi-neutrals created from this color harmony are much brighter and more lively than when mixed with more traditional color harmonies.

It is not to be said that traditional or the Munsell Color system are any better or worse than each other. The Munsell Color system just presents more color harmony in paintings.

Here’s hopeing you enjoy these posts as we develop color schemes for more beautiful paintings.

Please let me hear from you, I would love to know how you explore color and how you decide the colors to be used in your paintings.

If you have trouble sticking to your goals and committments then download “The Art of Goal Setting” and find a way to keep your artistic endeavors on track.

Ellene
Ellene Breedlove Davis
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Find Artistic Color Harmony Using Discordant Colors from the Color Wheel