From the course: Artist at Work: Tertiary Colors

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Making your focal points in an image pop

Making your focal points in an image pop

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Making your focal points in an image pop

So that little tree. Now I will use a good brush for that. Actually I'm going to use a smaller brush. This is the tiny area. And a big mistake that people have when they're, when they're working is they use the tool that's too large for the area they're trying to articulate. And thats just silly you should use a size brush or tool that fits the literal shape and size of the thing you're making. Particularly in traditional work, that's the case. So let me just pull a little bit of violet into the brown. And now the brown that I'm using is a different brown. This is burnt umber. It's a chocolatey brown. So if you think of milk chocolate, it's sort of like that. Now, what I can do also is use some paper to test. But for now, I'm just using the palette to mix these colors. But it's always good to have something aside to sort of tap on the piece of paper to see what your color is. Okay, so here, I am just going to bleed in a little bit and when I say bleed, I mean, the, the surface of this…

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