Up: [[Tell About It MOC]] Related: [[Mystery]] Created: 2024-07-24 Updated: 2025-01-18 I’d like to get good at conveying drama and mystery in my paintings. Painting the night sky is one way to do that, especially if the moon is included in that sky. Moonlight results in soft, diffused light, muted tones, and a hazy outline to objects. A way to see that for myself is to actually go outside and paint at the time of a full moon. It will be easy to see the contrasts of light and shadow. When painting a night sky, warm colours come forward and cool colours recede. The lightest whites are always going to appear closest to you. Darker parts will look further away. There is no ‘white’ in moonlight. The brightest lights are always a couple of values down from white. And moonlight is cooler than sunlight. In an area without artificial light coming from buildings, campfires, streetlights etcetera, there is often a blue or silvery-green hue to the landscape and the objects within it. #### Colour suggestions I found For the range of blues at night — combine Phthalo Turquoise and Alizarin Crimson, then modify with white For silvery-green — combine Phthalo Turquoise and Alizarin Crimson with Cadmium Yellow Deep Other colours to play with, using as is or modifying, include: midnight blue, muted turqoise, soft gold, soft silver, alabaster