Doing small marsh paintings based on my recent boat rides, I wanted a great variety of greens; my downstairs palette doesn't have much mixing room, and only one green in an inferior paint someone gave me. I have taken a series of watercolor classes from five different people, three of whom required a specific palette of colors, one suggested one, and one didn't care! Also for a few years I bought all of the Daniel Smith free-shipping triads, as I got the offers in my email. I would unplack them and put the tubes away in a drawer, or maybe test them first. Last summer, I sorted them into color groups. Last night, I picked six of the greens and put them into a porcelain palette that came with a christmas present set in 1993. Then I painted this. I am hoping to learn some of the majot pigment designations. I have four different ochres, for instance, and all of them list only PY43, so it is the first one I have memorized.
The two cobalts. as expected, were more granular; the two permanent greens and especially the WN Winsor Green (yellow shade) gave a beautiful even wash of very attractive color.
But the delightful surprise--and what made the whole effort seem worth it--was the DS Cascade Green! The pigments here are old classics: Phthalo Green and Raw Sienna. If you look closely at the wash, you will see how they separate out into blue and yellow components. So then I did three more underpaintings before I went to bed.
June, thanks for leaving a comment. The photographer is my daughter, Baby Jack's mommy. The non distracting background is a black cloth she hangs up behind Jack when she takes some of her pictures of him. Have a good weekend. :)
ReplyDeleteThat Cascade Green certainly is beautiful. It looks as if it has some red in it. That sort of blue-green is my favourite colour. If I ever have to choose a complementary colour scheme, its usually that green and a warm red.
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