There’s no one quite like you Diane- your explanations offer so much clarity- you’re such a joy ❤️ I’ve learned more from you than anyone else 🤗

The way you taught neutralizing colours really helps with warm. And cool recognition, also in your shadow video 🥰

Very good demonstration…..it’s not always easy to remember that color temperature is relative…..one always needs to be comparing the color to another color as it appears beside the other color…..thank you!

Thank for giving me an 'A-ha ' moment. You made a fizzy concept crystal clear. Thank you Diane.

This helps when warming or cooling grays. Thank you!

Colour Temperature is the final boss in Fine Art Painting. No wonder so many are confused in the comments. This is something you are going to have to painstakingly lay out on a canvas or panel swatch after swatch to get a feel for colour temperature effects. You can make things recede into the distance, or come forward in the work, even though by all other accounts it should not work. Relative value is key to understanding this concept. Colours appear warm or cool depending on what neighbor they are surround by. I personally use the same thought process as I do when dealing with light and dark value transitions. Velatura (glazing, in the Queen's English) is a good way to control your temperatures, especially after completing the picture and letting your brain dial in all the values correctly. Then you can excavate your precious painting using temperature, all the while looking like you aren't progressing on the work at all.

If I’m unsure as to whether a particular colour is warm or cool, I imagine myself on a freezing cold day and think of what colour sweater I would like to put on. Or on a hot, humid day, what colour t-shirt would I like to put on? It can really help! Thank you for all you share so generously, Dianne, and it must be a lot of work making these super-helpful videos.

Another fabulous lesson‼️

Wow fantastic very beautiful work my friend 💖 💗 💖 💗 💖!!!

Thank you for you generosity Diane. This one is another clarification I definitely needed. I need really need the test strips to nail down slight changes in color more sensitively. Many thanks 😊!!!!

Thank you for teaching us!

so important to get these basics you are a great teacher thanks.

Terrific, you're a terrific teacher!

The trickiest aspect of all this are the optical illusions that occur when slightly warm colors are surrounded by even warmer colors and vice versa. There have been times that I could have sworn I was looking at a very muted blue only to find that the color was actually a grey on the warm side of neutral when revealed by a color sampler. Sometimes our own eyes deceive us.

Thank you teacher :)

Thanks for this Dianne!! Love it!

Thank you, for sharing your knowledge!

That's very interesting....I always thought of red as the warmest color.

Colour and how we perceive it is very strange. When we look at snow or ice, we certainly don't get a feeling of warmth, but we do by looking at fire. This is how I try to determine the temperature of a colour. Is this normal? I don't understand why certain colours effect me emotionaly, maybe I should look into it, but I'm a sucker for sunset's and sunrise's. Even more so for the magnificent display of colour's we see in space.

Thankyou ma'am for explaining it so well.

Another one of my problems is solved, thank you!!!

Awesome tips. Thank you very much

QUESTION. how is composition important in abstract work?

LOVE your instructional demos... but have always wondered how your BIG piles of paint don't dry out... ?

I have been experimenting with using complementary colors for grey. The one which has me puzzled is violet and yellow. Mine always comes out brownish to which I have to add blue... could it be a problem with the specific color I use? Thanks

Merci 👌

Nice

Diane, have you ever gotten so frustrated by a painting that you just painted over the whole thing and started over?

Diane's really gonna lose you guys. It is 100% not based on our physical experience of heat and cold; color temperature is about the relative color differences. A reder blue is warm, a yellower blue is cool, a yellower red is warm, a bluer red is cool, a reder yellow is warm, a bluer yellow is cool. It's not a split down the middle of the color wheel, temperature is relative. Honestly there are better people out there for this concept than Diane though she's great at a lot. I recommend you play around with two colors and white, ultramarine blue and either transparent red oxide or burnt sienna or (burnt umber would be fine.) You'll see how you can turn form or make things recede or pop even keeping the same value just by alternating the temperature.