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Job: 11803 Title: #218076# Drawing Lessons From The Famous Artists School (Rockport)
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THE BASICS OF COLOR
Color, said Peter Helck, is personal to each
individual artist. “You may feel an instinctive
love for the sensuous richness of exotic color
— pungent deep-toned reds and oranges, hot
greens and mellow earth hues. Or you may
feel in perfect accord with the cool grays,
greens and blues such as you encounter on
a hike through the hills on a misty, sunless
spring day.”
That said, artists make color choices not
just based on instinct but also with knowledge
of the ...