In my blog, I am trying various color schemes to expand my painting vocabulary. To that end, I am selecting a different color scheme/limited palette each week and basing three little 8 x 6 or 10 x 8 paintings upon that color palette. If you have any suggestions of color palettes I should try, please email me at nanvenhuizen@gmail.com. ( I’d love to have a comment section on this page, but I haven’t yet figured out how to do that!)
I love Cerulean Blue! It is the color of clear, lovely skies and shimmering water! I also really like it when mixed with yellow to make the bright green that is the color of grass lit by sunshine. In the following paintings, I used Cerulean blue and yellow to portray the sunlit grass-and to portray the sunlit grass or leaves in each painting. Also I, of course, used it to portray the bright green cab of the nursery pickup!
In my blog, I am trying various color schemes to expand my painting vocabulary. To that end, I am selecting a different color scheme/limited palette each week and basing three little 8 x 6 or 10 x 8 paintings upon that color palette. If you have any suggestions of color palettes I should try, please email me at nanvenhuizen@gmail.com. ( I’d love to have a comment section on this page, but I haven’t yet figured out how to do that!)
Blue and purple are a moody combination! These three paintings were done primarily with Titanium White, Dioxazine Purple, Ultramarine Blue with a small amount of Cerulean Blue and Yellow Ochre.
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In my blog, I am trying various color schemes to expand my painting vocabulary. To that end, I am selecting a different color scheme/limited palette occasionally and basing three little 8 x 6 or 10 x 8 paintings upon that color palette. If you have any suggestions of color palettes I should try, please email me at nanvenhuizen@gmail.com. ( I’d love to have a comment section on this page, but I haven’t yet figured out how to do that!)
These three paintings were completed with basically three colors-Alizarin Crimson, Titanium White and Ivory Black. I used a small amount of Cadmium Orange to brighten the Crimson and for the grass. I like color-so this was a pretty limiting palette-yet very effective to express the feeling of a gray winter day!!
In my blog, I am trying various color schemes to expand my painting vocabulary. To that end, I am selecting a different color scheme/limited palette each week and basing three little 8 x 6 or 10 x 8 paintings upon that color palette. If you have any suggestions of color palettes I should try, please email me at nanvenhuizen@gmail.com. ( I’d love to have a comment section on this page, but I haven’t yet figured out how to do that!)all of my paintings are available at
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/nan-venhuizen-9368
Autumn is, admittedly, my favorite season-I love the lovely yellow-orange trees which start out against the clear Cerulean Blue skies! For these autumn paintings, I primarily used these colors-
Cerulean Blue
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Yellow
With smaller amounts of these colors-
Burnt Siennna
Ultramarine Blue
Cadmium Red
And -of course-
Titanium White
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