![]() ![]() ![]() His admiration of Millet’s work is well known. He would have been able to view it in Paris between 1873 – 1875. Van Gogh may very well have been influenced by this painting by Jean Francois Millet when he created his own Starry Night painting. ![]() If you have bright colors in other areas of your painting – that will detract from your starry sky. You must make sure that you are leading viewers eyes to the bright stars in the sky. #Paint fx new sky how to#Rather, how to paint a night sky is also about balancing muted and saturated colors. Painting a night sky isn’t always just about being able to balance dark values and creating bright areas for stars to shine. Because when a bright saturated color is placed in the middle of muted colors it will inevitably stand out. Every other area of the painting is made up of more muted colors– which helps for the meteor to stand out even more. In addition to the meteor being the brightest part of the night sky painting, it is also made up of the most saturated colors. Everything else in the painting would be darker so that there would be no ‘competition’ of focus. He made sure that the brightest part of the painting would be the meteor itself. This painting is able to make that meteor crossing the sky look so bright and brilliant all because of how he used value and muted colors. Walt Whitman even wrote a few words about the event in his poem year of meteors 1859 -1860 ‘ “… strange huge meteor procession, dazzling and clear, shooting over our heads”. What he saw was a ‘spectacular string of fireball meteors cross the Catskill evening sky, an extremely rare earth grazing meteor procession ( )’. The American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church (of the Hudson River School) painted what he saw in the sky in 1860. While also bringing in light values to the areas of the painting where the stars or moon are painted in.įrederic Edwin Church – The Meteor of 1860 Frederick Edwin Church, The Meteor of 1860 One important thing we learn from this painting, is that one must work with dark values a lot when learning how to paint a night sky. The viewer is able to see the figures in the landscape because they are lit up in the foreground and are much brighter in contrast to the dark landscape. In addition, we can see the bright stars that are in the dark areas of the sky away from the moon. As a result, the light from the moon creates a glow in the night sky painting. Although the sky is also dark, the landscape is even darker. In the painting, the landscape and trees are very dark in value. The night sky in this painting feels like a natural night sky because the artist balanced the values in the painting so that we could feel the darkness of the sky. This painting depicts Joseph, Mary and Jesus seeking refuge from possible persecution by Herod. This oil on copper painting by Adam Elsheimer is thought to be the very first rendering of the night sky in Renaissance art. ![]()
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