Colleen Barry NYC Artist
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The Andy Warhol Effect
🕑 Added 2025-08-30 13:00:12 +0000 UTCA little excerpt from my Love Dogs painting video documented in 2023 and released in March, 2024. I documented the entire process of making a figure painting from the original doodle, the canvas prep, the underpainting, to the final finish and presentation at Art Brussels Contemporary Art Fair, 2023. It’s currently available on my website.
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Chris McDonald
I can't speak for Colleen, but my understanding of what she's talking about here is this: to achieve a more graphic or "iconic" look in your painting, your values need to be clustered toward either the dark or the light, with very little falling in the middle (mid tones). Another way of thinking about it would be painting with higher contrast. To use your example of the gradient, you're basically cutting out the middle section of the gradient and choosing your values from either the light end or the dark end. Hope that helps!
peter takac
Colleen may I ask what marginalize mid tones means. Averaging part of the gradient? thank you
