"Don't tell me you used black paint again"

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Sep 3, 2026
"Mastering painting Colors to finding the magic of Claude Monet Light. 1860 on his Palettes show NO use of Black paint , that ushered in bright colors that we love about his work"
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AI GeneratedThis tutorial explains how to create depth and visual \"pop\" in paintings by avoiding black and utilizing complementary colors. Drawing on the teachings of Claude Monet, the instructor demonstrates how to use warm colors for foreground objects and cool colors for backgrounds to create a sense of spatial separation and lightness.
If you continue on using black, your objects do not pop from the background.
If you watch this program, it clearly states the teachings of Claude Monet.
All objects that are in the front are warm colors. The walls on the back are cool colors,
like a garden, like the ocean sky, or all of those are cool colors. You can see that this
particular rock formation is white, but the artist waited until the sunset to paint it
to create that yellow and gold, where he has red against the green water, or the yellow rocks,
orange rocks against purplish sky. Sunlight is divided into cool and warm colors of the spectrum.
The whole plan from the beginning to the end of this video is that I must have two complementary
colors to create a two inch space between the front form and the back wall, so it pops. You
will see that my yellow green apple soon will have a pinkish background. The cadmium red and white,
directly on the dark side of the apple, the purple violet on the light side of the yellow green.
Every aspect of this frontal objects of the apple are complementary colors to the background,
with a slight variation of dark side will receive the pink, light side receives the violet.
Now I'm going to make this into the correct colors now. In order to create that space I was
talking about, the dark side of the two apples will receive a cadmium red with white, very light
color for the back wall. The light side of the apples receive a purplish violet color,
it's much cooler and darker. The shadow will receive the same purple. I'll add a little bit of
cerulean blue to make it more of a gray color and I added a supposed shadow on the floor.
Now I'll do a pair and I'll do the opposite colors so you know what complementary colors look like.
So here is an alizarin crimson on the dark side, must receive, if I wanted to
say in the green family of colors, will receive a lighter yellow green. So I'll wipe it off
and I'll put the, that's right, yellow green. That would be the complement of alizarin crimson.
On the light side of the pear, which is orangish, dirty orange color, I will put blue in the family
of blues. So the color that I put in mixes with whatever we have on the ground and it kind of
makes it a dirty looking blue. But anyway, on either side those colors in the wall, on the wall,
are complements of the pear. So now you can see we have an actual space between my apple
and the pear. And this person is taking black and gray and is making these objects very heavy.
He even takes all of the lights. Look at all works of Monet, they appear very light, like weight.
I'm talking about weight. Don't use black. If you do, go ahead and use purple or violet,
ultramarine, and behind it use yellow complement of violet to make it a two-inch space between the
object and the cardboard in the back. Don't forget to subscribe. 80% of viewers have never
subscribed. Behind the purple you use yellow, complementary color of purple, violet. That
creates a three-inch space between the cardboard and the pear. You see how light this object is.
It has rose matter in the back, greenish colors in the front. Beautiful, very light object. It is
not heavy like a rock. Take a look at this. The cardboard is actually coming forward because it
has a little bit of orange color in it. And the dark side of this pear is black. It will go back
as a shadow. I hope you enjoyed this video. I appreciate all my subscribers. Thank you.
