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 paintings upon that color palette. If you have any suggestions of color palettes I should try, please email me at nvenhuizen@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 time is very limited this week, so I decided to use a very simple palette-
Ultramarine Blue
Cerulean Blue
Ivory Black
Using this palette, made me realize how much I like color! It was similar to painting in black and whites as I had to rely entirely upon value and texture to differentiate the various areas of the painting. I suppose this palette would be fine for a night scene or for a skyscape but for painting any other type of landscape, it is TOO limiting!
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 paintings upon that color palette. If you have any suggestions of color palettes I should try, please email me at nvenhuizen@gmail.com. ( I’d love to have a comment section on this page, but I haven’t yet figured out how to do that!)
Anders Zorn was a famous Swedish artist and this combination of colors is called the Zorn Palette, since it is said that he used this combination of colors almost exclusively. He primarily painted portraits- and -I found that this isn’t the best palette for landscapes, though it does work moderately well for fall landscapes. Any other season would be very difficult as these colors do not yield any real blues or greens. The colors in the Zorn Palette are-
Ivory Black
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Red
Titanium White
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 paintings upon that color palette. If you have any suggestions of color palettes I should try, please email me at nvenhuizen@gmail.com. ( I’d love to have a comment section on this page, but I haven’t yet figured out how to do that!)
This week I tried a palette with two yellows and two blues-plus a very small bit of Alizarin Crimson(most obvious in the barn painting!). This is the first time I’d ever used Delft Blue and I really liked it- similar to Ultramarine Blue, but slightly more subdued. The colors I used are listed below-
Delft Blue
Cerulean Blue
Cadmium Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Alizarin Crimson
Now to figure out the colors to use for next week’s paintings!!
