Tag: color mixing
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Getting Going
A dot for every thing I got done today. Well, maybe not quite, but I almost started with art, and once I got over the resistance and got started, I got loads of things done. It was a varied art day, with lots of things started, and I also got loads of non-art things done…
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Handmade Grey
I mixed an interesting blue-grey today. It’s not a payne’s grey, but it’s got a similar feel. I used caput mortuum violet, phthalo blue and van dyke brown for the mix, and white to get some lighter values. This is a horsie I started on a wood panel ages ago with just a rough sketch,…
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Four Hundred Days
Day 29 of the 100 Day Project. I tried a different process for laying down the paint today, and although it hasn’t been entirely successful, I liked what I learned. I think the process is perhaps a challenge to complete in a hour, or perhaps more practise will make it easier. I could have painted…
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Colour Mixing
Carrying on with my colour mixing play the other day, I finished mixing the grid of colours for the sketchbook, and then I decided I wanted a set of nine colours, with a mix of lights, mids and darks. I spent some time mixing colours using the sketchbook palette as inspiration, and I now have…
Thrummie Bizzum 