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Raymond Logan's Use of Warm/Cool Yellow

I troll around on a lot of artist’s blogs (for a free education) and one I keep going back to especially is Raymond Logan’s. After attempting the “Whistler style” a few posts back, and in working with color mixing exercises, the use of value and temperature is,  of course, in the forefront of my mind now when looking at artworks. The surprising thing about painting and drawing, to me, is not that we CAN do it, it’s that often the reason we can’t is that we don’t really see what’s there. Nor how to study what is there. This link to Logan’s post on warm/cool use of yellow is a great example. I keep going back to it to study because I know I don’t yet really grok warm/cool in painting and this painting is helping me break through that. Hope it helps you, too.

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