Quick Tip 236 - 3 Ways to Gradate

There are lots of questions on how to create variations of colors in painting. Artist/Art teacher Dianne Mize shows how to attain the skill needed to create gradations.

[joanistotler]

Thanks, Dianne for talking about and demonstrating the various aspects of a subject such as gradation. So often something like that gets into one limited lump for me and it helps to break it down, so that this skill can be used in a variety of ways. Also, it help those of us who need to be told repeatedly. LOL

[lmundishop]

Thank you so much for your teaching this old dog new tricks.

[jennis]

So glad you didn’t give up teaching completely. I’m excited to watch all your videos

[rosered]

Always the best at simple helpful explanations. Thank you.

[jonovembrino]

Excellent lessons! Thank you for doing your demos in real-time and describing each step so clearly.

[jillrobbins]

I Love your tips!! I was unable to paint for a while yet once I began watching your videos again, I can’t wait to return to painting!

[lauraven]

Thank you for these so helpful explanations !!

[tfloyd]

Thank you for this video. Just that one little section, in which you accidentally backed up too far and made the dark blue too light, made me realize one of my own errors. Then you fixed it with just a clean brush, which again was so easy and effective. 💗

[PhantomGanhdi]

Thanks for the tips! This video came at the perfect time for me. I am just now learning how to oil paint. Taking Oil painting 1 at university & this was one thing that I was struggling with

[rezahosseinzadehnasser]

Dear Dianne, watching this tip and also the previous video on luminosity, and your post on how to change a blah photo to a pleasing painting, I understand that we can change colors of source to create a more expressive painting . Am I right ? By the way I feel addicted to see you every Wednesday now . Loves.

[atsu]

Thanks Dianna, you are amazing teacher. I’m starting a cracking Colour code course with you. I will be very happy to be able to draw ✍️ one day

[grantfleming]

This is excellent and very helpful. Question re last example showing intense red neutralized by the green, if one were trying to maintain the same value while gradating toward neutral, would you have added white into the blending progression to yield a neutral of the same value as the initial red?

[marycaciamasser]

Wonderful. Thank you. I’m heading there now.

[joannelamb]

Thank you. Extremely helpful.
Where did you get your pallet/stand from?
Stay safe and keep well.xJo

[antheablackmore]

How weird I’ve been looking into this today!!!! And wow here you are...thankyou

[kathleenwildey]

Thank you very much, great and helpful information. Are you using oil or acrylic? If acrylic, how are you keeping it from drying so fast?

[lillianfyn]

I've had trouble with this, thanks for the great demo. Your quick tips are so helpful! Do you ever use a mop brush to blend? I'm wondering how this is done. It never seems to work for me.

[raysherwin]

Hi Dian, Thank you so for sharing your valuable knowledge with us. I have a question about this video. Don't you think we need consider the temprature of the color for smooth blending!?..as it seems to me that green and blue are not blending well because yellow is sticking out due to its warm nature comparing to the blue.

[harryfisherman]

Could you do a tip on painting tree shapes with color variation.


Thanks


Harry

[ArvindSingh-omup]

You said higher the tinting strength less colour it will take to turn neutral. Is that true? It is a bit confusing. In one video you explained greater the tinting strength more colour it will take to shift the hue.