Ricardo Guimaraes

Yellow Ochre dominant color chart! This concludes the yellows on my palette. It’s incredible to see the range I have from this mixtures and how I was under-using (or sometimes overthinking) my colors! A few takeaways from the Yellow Ochre mixtures: - The mixtures turned out, expectedly, duller than the previous charts, but… - I was surprised by how vibrant the orange resulting from the yellow ochre + transp. oxide red mixture was - I am avoiding (consciously avoiding) having the previous charts near me when I make the new ones, and… - Sometimes I think: maybe these mixtures are the same to the previous ones but… - I simply trust the process and it turns out, every single mixture is different! (as they should be) - The important thing is, by having a different dominant on each chart, same color mixtures will still be different due to the difference in quantities of each! Next one: Cadmium Red Medium dominant! #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter #pleinair #oilpainting #oilpainter #landscapepainting #landscapepainter #allaprima #richardschmid #oils #sketches #colorchart #yellowochre

Cadmium Yellow Deep dominant color chart! I must confess, I’m getting addicted to this! I wake up in the morning and barely can’t wait to get started 😅. A few takeaways from the Cadmium Yellow Deep mixtures: - Those flesh tones ❤️ (the photo is not half as good as the real chart!) - Those greens ❤️ - My understanding about the mixtures is really improving, it does get easier! - The important thing is not just creating the 5 values, but to adjust the values as you go to have even value separation between them. - This 👆🏻 requires a lot of focus! Next one: Yellow Ochre dominant! #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter #pleinair #oilpainting #oilpainter #landscapepainting #landscapepainter #allaprima #richardschmid #oils #sketches #colorchart #cadmiumyellowdeep

Cadmium Lemon dominant color chart! This is being so helpful (and sometimes surprising) to understand the potential of my palette. A few takeaways from the Cadmium Yellow mixtures: - Ivory Black is indeed the “warmest blue” - Cobalt Blue loses power quickly on tints - How greenish Yellow Ochre get in this mixtures - I’m much more at ease using the palette knife Next one: Cadmium Yellow Deep dominant! #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter #pleinair #oilpainting #oilpainter #landscapepainting #landscapepainter #allaprima #richardschmid #oils #sketches #colorchart #cadmiumlemon

Working on my (long overdue) color charts! So much fun to do and so much to learn from this! #pleinair #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter #oilpainting #oilpainter #landscapepainting #landscapes #allaprima #colorcharts #richardschmid

Quick study from the group of trees across from the field next to my home :) #pleinair #pleinairpainting #pleiairpainter #allaprima #allaprimapainting #oilpainting #oilpainter #oilsketch #landscape #landscapepainting #landscapepainter #thegreatoutdoors

First work from the workshop with @kylekcma ! Watching his demo was incredible, learned a ton! #oilpainting #oilpainter #pleinair #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter #oilsketch #allaprima #allaprimapainting #landscape #workshop

I love these trees! And the greens are back! #pleinair #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter #greatoutdoors #oilpainting #oilonpanel #landscape #landscapepainting

Did you ever see a Canola field? Color is unreal! Had tons of fun painting the field this morning! #pleinair #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter #outdoors #oilpainting #oilsketch #landscapepainting #landscape

Pencil study of Sorolla’s self portrait. I simply love his work! #pencil #sketch #study #portrait #sorolla #drawing #pleinair #pleinairpainting

Murky waters on a gray day and a new “friend” 😅 #pleinair #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter #landscapepainting #landscape #oilpainting #oils

Did this small, quick study today! Learned a ton from this, especially about light temperature and how sometimes it’s enough to have less cool colors instead of warm colors for achieving warm lights! #study #landscape #landscapepainting #oils #oilpainting #pleinair #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter

Been painting a lot of plein air landscapes in oils lately. There’s no better way to strengthen the fundamentals! Subtle value and temperature changes, drawing, proportions, you name it! And it’s really a wonderful break from screens. #pleinair #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter #landscape #landscapepainting #oilpainting #oilpainter