Color Temperature for Oils

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Orange
Raw Umber Cool Transparent

Yellow Transparent Earth Cool Transparent

Yellow
Green
Radient Lemon Cool Opaque
Cadmium Orange Cool Opaque Viridian Cool Transparent
Cadmium Lemon Cool Opaque
Burnt Umber Warm Transparent Phthalo Green Cool Transparent
Hansa Yellow Cool Opaque
Raw Sienna Warm Transparent Cobalt Green Cool Opaque
Cadmium Yellow Light Cool Opaque
Transparent Earth Warm Transparent Chromium Oxide Green Warm Opaque
Cadmium Yellow Medium Warm Opaque Orange
Emerald Green Warm Opaque
Naples Yellow Hue Warm Opaque Asphaltum Warm Transparent
Permanent Green Light Warm Opaque
Cadmium Yellow Deep Warm Opaque Mono Orange Warm Opaque
Sap Green Warm Transparent
Yellow Ochre Warm Opaque Cadmium Orange Warm Opaque
Deep Cadmium Green Warm Opaque
Hansa yellow Deep Warm Opaque
Olive Green Warm Transparent
Indian Yellow Warm Transparent
Terre Verte Warm Transparent

Violet
Maganese Violet Warm Transparent

Colbalt Violet Warm Transparent

Ultramarine Violet Cool Transparent

Red Radiant Violet Cool Opaque

Transparent Earth Red Warm Transparent Dioxaxine Purple Cool Transparent

Burnt Sienna Warm Transparent

Venetian Red Warm Opaque

Transparent Orange Warm Transparent Blue

Cadmium Red Light Warm Opaque Ultramarine Blue Warm Transparent Black/White/Grey
Cadmium Red Medium Warm Opaque Cobalt Blue Warm Opaque Titanium White Neutral Opaque

Radiant Red Warm Opaque Radiant Blue Warm Opaque Zinc White Cool Opaque

Cadmium Red Deep Warm Opaque Indanthrone Blue Warm Transparent Flake White Warm Opaque

Indian Red Warm Transparent Phthalo Blue (RS) Warm Transparent Foundation White Warm Opaque

Napthol Red Warm Opaque Phthalo Blue (GS) Cool Transparent Paynes Grey Cool Transparent

Perylene Red Warm Transparent Cerulean Blue Cool Opaque Ivory Black Warm Opaque

Alizarin Crimson Cool Transparent Prussian Blue Cool Transparent Mars Black Cool Opaque

Quinacridone Red Cool Transparent Maganese Blue Cool Transparent Van Dyke Brown Warm Transparent

Quinacridone Magenta Cool Transparent Phthalo Turquoise Cool Transparent Lamp Black Cool Opaque

Quinacridone Violet Cool Transparent Cobalt Teal Cool Opaque Black Spinel Warm Transparent
 Painting Tips and Terms

• TRANSPARENTS - LIGHT to DARK

• OPAQUES - DARK to LIGHT

• Opaque color + Transparent Color = OPAQUE COLOR

• Transparent color + Transparent Color = Transparent color

• Build Your Painting - BACKGROUND TO FOREGROUND

• EFFECTIVE BACKGROUND - Cool, No Contrast, Blurry, Faded

• FOREGROUND THAT POPS - Warm, Crisp, Contrast, Details, Graphic

• BIG brushes to SMALL brushes

• LOOSE to TIGHT

• Work ALL OVER your painting, not just in one spot, building layers

• Don’t be afraid to use LOTS of COLOR - Bright to toned down

• Create through process allowing painting to emerge, rather than applying

a painting. Create from the inside out, not the outside in.

• FAT OVER LEAN- Add thinners to begin & thickeners at the end. Use thinners like
mineral spirits to start, as fatteners like oil, wax at the end

• Impasto- Thick, heavy brushwork creating texture.

• Alla Prima- a painting created all in one sitting. (italian, -at the first)

• Chiaroscuro – an Italian “light dark”, a painting with strong contrasts, grounding

your subject into background by juxtaposing light against dark and dark against
light.

• Dry Brush – an effect when you have very little moisture on your brush to apply the
paint. When you use a dry brush you lightly drag light opaque over a darker tone to
expose a broken paint texture.

• Scumble – very thin layer of opaque or semi-opaque paint creates a broken layer of
color that is brushed over another so that patches of the color beneath show
through. It can be done with a dry brush, or by removing bits of paint with a cloth.

• Indirect painting- creating an underpainting or tonal painting, or working with

radiants, to set up your painting for a glazing layer. Working in layers, and process
rather than direct painting.

• Grisaille- Working from a grey or neutral monochromatic underpainting

• Glaze- Layer of transparent paint mixed with glazing medium like alkyd or liquin over
a dried pigment layer.

• Sfumato- Italian smoked, hazy, soft layer creating subtle gradation

• Trompe l’oeil- an illusionistic painting that ‘deceives the eye’, usually challenging the
picture plane

• Plane shift- when a flat plane or surface of the object hits the edge of another plane,
the light source exposes the plane shifts

• Fresco- applying or mixing dry pigments into venetian plaster