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What happens when you mix opposite colors on the color wheel?

Renée Plevy
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Renée Plevy is an Internationally Acclaimed Portrait Artist from New York/Palm Beach who has painted The Grand Dames of Palm Beach and various celebrities and community leaders. With over 50 years of experience, Renée specializes in painting realistically in oil and capturing the soul of the person. She has studied under internationally renowned portrait artists John Howard Sanden, David Leffel, Robert Beverly Hale, Clyde Smith, and Leonid Gervits. Renée is featured in over 68 shows and galleries including a one-woman museum show at the Paterson Museum. She has garnered numerous awards including “Artist of the Year” from The Bloomfield Art League and First Prize from the Boca Raton Museum Artist’s Guild. Renée has even painted a portrait of celebrity, Vanilla Ice. She also teaches at the Boca Raton Museum Art School - formerly at SVA in Manhattan.

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When you mix opposite colors on the color wheel, you make them a deeper color. So if your red is too bright to work with the other colors on your painting, you can mix a little green in them. If your green is too bright, and you want to tone it down a little bit, you can add a little red to it.

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Can you create a gold color using other colors?

Renée Plevy
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Renée Plevy is an Internationally Acclaimed Portrait Artist from New York/Palm Beach who has painted The Grand Dames of Palm Beach and various celebrities and community leaders. With over 50 years of experience, Renée specializes in painting realistically in oil and capturing the soul of the person. She has studied under internationally renowned portrait artists John Howard Sanden, David Leffel, Robert Beverly Hale, Clyde Smith, and Leonid Gervits. Renée is featured in over 68 shows and galleries including a one-woman museum show at the Paterson Museum. She has garnered numerous awards including “Artist of the Year” from The Bloomfield Art League and First Prize from the Boca Raton Museum Artist’s Guild. Renée has even painted a portrait of celebrity, Vanilla Ice. She also teaches at the Boca Raton Museum Art School - formerly at SVA in Manhattan.

Renée Plevy

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You cannot make a gold color. But you can make the colors around it work. They have to be darker. And they have to add to the actual impression. For example, if you are making a painting and there are various colors around a particular shade of Naples yellow with a bit of lemon yellow, it would look like gold.

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Can I do this without the compass?

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Yes, the compass just makes it more exact. You can draw the arches yourself.

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Can I create a spiral using words?

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Yes! Just follow the same steps, but lightly trace the line and write your words over it in pen. Then you can erase the line, leaving just your words in the spiral pattern.

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