Tham khảo tài liệu 'color mixing the van wyk way - phần 3', văn hoá - nghệ thuật, điêu khắc - hội họa phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Cadmium Yellow Light Cadmium Yellow Light is the most versatile yellow to use because its hue is the closest one to primary yellow. Zinc Yellow is somewhat greenish and although I do have Cadmium Yellow Medium on my palette you can very well record the color yellow without it. I chose to paint lemons as the subject for Cadmium Yellow Light not only because they are fun to paint and make a charming little picture but I also can stress the technique and necessity to paint in an overlapping fashion. Why The rinds of a cut-up lemon are so much a part of the lemon s structure they can t be considered details that are merely added as finishing touches with a small brush. Pay attention to the steps that show the progression of the applications of paint as well as the color mixtures. Cadmium Yellow Light tinted with white. Cadmium Yellow Light darkened and grayed with Alizarin Crimson black and white. CHAPTER 3 CADMIUM YELLOW LIGHT 27 Figure 1 FIGURE 1. The setup. Notice how the arrangement of the wedges shows off the semi-transparent quality of the lemon s pulp and how all the elements of the composition overlap one other. This not only unifies the composition and gives it variety it also helps depict the depth dimension of the arrangement. Don t put yourself at a disadvantage by trying to paint an arrangement that doesn t clearly illustrate the characteristics of its subject. STEP 1. When placing the element of your composition on your canvas always judge its position and size in relation to your canvas s size. Actually indicate your decisions by marking off how close the arrangement is going to encounter the canvas s edges. STEP 2. The drawing of the subject is simply stated by filling in two values of gray acrylic one for the table tone one for the background. STEP 3. Now using oil repaint in the background color black white Yellow Ochre. Don t make these mixtures thick. Thin them with medium so the grayness of the underpainting can influence the color. Let your eye .
