Tham khảo tài liệu 'color mixing the van wyk way - phần 4', văn hoá - nghệ thuật, điêu khắc - hội họa phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 6 Cadmium Red Light Cadmium Red Light is a bright orangey red. It s an excellent red to use with Yellow Ochre and white for basic flesh colors. Darken and redden Cadmium Red Light with additions of Alizarin Crimson. Even though the cadmium colors are considered opaque you can glaze with them. They do have to be thinned with a medium to make them a glaze but never make them runny. All the cadmium colors are expensive but strong which means you don t have to squeeze out much. Another factor that eases their high cost is that they dry very slowly and will remain workable on your palette for days or even weeks. There are more cadmium reds available Cadmium Red Medium and Cadmium Red Deep. Both are quite useless because they dull down drastically when mixed with even a touch of white. Cadmium Red Light darkened and grayed with Thalo Green and Cadmium Yellow Light. CHAPTER 6 CADMIUM RED LIGHT 39 Figure 1 Step 1 FIGURE 1. Since the color red is a medium tone its color and value have to be seen against a dark background or a light one. The white plate serves as the necessary light contrast and the dark background contrasts the lighter tones of red caused by the lighting from the right. Always paint colors in advantageous conditions. STEP 1. You can see by comparing my drawing to the actual setup Figure I that I decided to make some changes. Try to seek out interesting shapes. The actual arrangement looks crowded and the tomato on the left was in danger of just touching the large tomato. That s a kiss That s a no-no STEP 2. Before working on the tomatoes I painted the background and the back part of the plate. Of course I started with the large tomato before doing the one in front of it. STEP 3. 1 corrected the bottoms of the tomatoes with their cast shadows of dark violet complementary to the plate s yellowish color. The plate s bottom was corrected with its cast shadow on the table made of Alizarin Crimson and black a dark violet complement of the table color which was .
