Note that the direction your painting faces affects its brightness: Paintings placed facing north/south are brighter.
In his career, the gunpowder drawings began as abstract, conceptual pieces, progressed into records of explosion events and evolved into what they mainly are today — stand-alone works that, as Cai explains them, amount to "a form of painting, with the same problems as painting: structure, composition, brightness, rhythm and the spirit of the two-dimensional".
Since the aged varnish layer had strongly yellowed and gave the painting an inappropriate gloss-the painting was intended to be left unvarnished-, this cleaning treatment had a profound effect on the overall color scheme and appearance of the painting, lifting the brightness of the colors.
The sun-drenched "Seaside at Honfleur," from 1864, for example, presents a rocky beach as a sparkling field of dabs of tan and gray paint, with the afternoon brightness heightened by sailboats rendered as dark silhouettes.
We believe that lead white was so painted to improve the overall visual effects of Hexi painting by increasing the brightness and shine.
The chemical company is the world's fifth-largest producer of titanium dioxide pigments, which are used to increase the brightness of paints, paper and plastics.
I was creating a painting of warmth and brightness.
The way of grinding has both an impact on the consistency and thus handling properties, as well as on the brightness of the paint [55, 56].
Developed films were acquired using GS-700 Imaging Densitometer (Biorad) and processed with Corel Photo Paint 7.0 to adjust image brightness and contrast.
A dense stand of trees partially hides the coastline and lends a bold block of dark tonality to the painting's otherwise nearly blinding brightness.
