Sensational Color Pro Kate Smith's Online Color Journal » painting

Color Quote of the Day: February 4th

Kate Smith — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:05:47 +0000

“Little by little, I’ve reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It’s not the first time that painting has been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me, they are magnificent things.”

Joan Miro

Color Quote of the Day: December 2nd

Kate Smith — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:05:14 +0000

“All colours will agree in the dark.”

Francis Bacon
Irish-born British painter, 28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992

Color Quote of the Day: November 30th

Kate Smith — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:00:00 +0000

“Never has a pigment been better named than ultramarine blue. Fashionable, even today, in its nomenclature! It is ultra in every way.”

Karen Fitzgerald
American Artist

Color Quote of the Day: November 29th

Kate Smith — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:05:37 +0000

“What, you haven’t any ivory-black on your palette? If you think you are going to make black with blue and red, I can’t have you in my class. You might stir up trouble with such ideas.”

Fernand Cormon
French Painter (December 24, 1845 – March 20, 1924)

Color Quote of the Day: November 28th

Kate Smith — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:05:52 +0000

“I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.”

Eugene Delacroix
French Romantic Artist (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

Color Quote of the Day: November 27th

Kate Smith — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:05:20 +0000

“Colour should be used to depict the three major emotions in a man’s life – anticipation, realization and retrospection.”

Ernest Lawson
Canadian-born American Impressionist Painter, 1873-1939

Color Quote of the Day: November 26th

Kate Smith — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:05:36 +0000

“The mind is excited by what painters refer to as ‘broken color’, the juxtaposition of two or more colors in a single passage.”

Eric Wiegardt, AWS NWS
American Watercolor Artist

Color Quote of the Day: November 23rd

Kate Smith — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:05:46 +0000

“Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.”

Emil Nolde
German Expressionist Painter, 1867-1956

Color Quote of the Day: November 22nd

Kate Smith — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:05:02 +0000

“I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though I could hear a scream. I painted that picture, painting the clouds like real blood. The colours screamed.”

Edvard Munch

Color Quote of the Day: November 20th

Kate Smith — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:05:18 +0000

“If you look closely at any face, you’ll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors – red, green, purple and yellow.”

Doug Dawson
Artist