Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Testing your limits


Silver Morning
6" X 6"

I've been spending a lot of time researching limited palettes lately, and coming up with some of my own. Often painters adopt a palette from someone whose work they admire. I've done that in the past but always wound up using only a few paints on the palette. Lately I've weeded out the paints that haven't worked. I also limit my palette to single pigment paints, which really simplifies matters.

 This study uses a limited palette of viridian, permanent rose, winsor yellow and white. I love that the blue grays are all made from a green.  This shows the extent to which a color is influenced by the color that surrounds it!


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