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!)
My paintings are all available for sale at-
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/nan-venhuizen-9368
Since green is so ubiquitous in any spring or summer landscape, having a clear idea of how to mix various types of greens is a subject worth exploring!
In many cases, it is preferable to have a duller type of green-which can be easily achieved by mixing Cadmium Yellow with Black(Barn and John Deere Tractor)-or for a bit more brightness-Cadmium Yellow and Ultramarine blue(Grain Elevator by Railroad Tracks) or for a very bright green -PthaloBlue and Cadmium Yellow(Big Sioux River View).
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 somehow acquired a tube of Sap Green and decided to try it this week. I normally mix my greens, but I did enjoy this Sap Green experiment. Sap Green is a rather dull green, but it can be brightened by adding Cadmium Yellow or darkened and cooled by adding Ultramarine Blue-or grayed and darkened by adding by dark mixture(I keep a dark mixture of Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Yellow and Alizarin Crimson mixed in a fillable tube).
My paintings are for sale at-
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/nan-venhuizen-9368
The colors I used for the following three paintings are-
Sap Green
Cadmium Yellow Light
Ultramarine Blue
Alizarin Crimson
Titanium White
For these three paintings, I was cleaning off my palette-which means they contain a little(or a lot!) of every color squeezed out on my palette. At the end of every painting session, I scrape off all the paint in my mixing area and mix it together-which results in a gray-usually with a bias toward one of the colors I was using. I put these puddles of gray back on my palette and use them when I need to dull a color-or need a gray in a painting. Therefore-these three paintings contain a little or a lot of eachl of these colors-
Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue, Pthalo Blue, Dioxazine Purple, Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Titanium White
My paintings are for sale at-
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/nan-venhuizen-9368
