The challenge of neutralizing yellow: Yellow at full strength is still a light value. It is therefore a challenge to turn it from the light into shadow without it being overpowered by other pigments. I grayed the yellow with a mixture of ultramarine blue and alizarin crimson after having made a page of color swatches …
Out of 140 tubes of paint, all but about twenty had not been opened for at least ten years, some for over twenty years. With matches and a pair of pliers I was able to open all but two. The awl was helpful when the paint had hardened, creating a plug at the opening of …
Color Exercise 4: Using Up Miscellaneous Pigments is now posted. Link to Color Exercises Directory Creating all three color/value charts simultaneously will save you a great deal of time. As you acquire additional pigments they can easily be added to the charts. Once you have determined the intrinsic value of your pigment you can easily …
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In Richard Schmid’s book Alla Prima he writes “My Advice — my plea to you — is to do the charts for your sake. (Do not use mine.) … Stay alert and see what is happening, not only on your palette, but within yourself.” Thank you, Richard Schmid, for the inspiration to go back to …
September Color Workshop: Exploring the three-color palettes led to several important clarifications and a major change in the curriculum for the future color workshops: After creating the color charts for each of the three color palettes it became clear that the warm palette was lacking in the variety of purples produced and the cool palette …