Friday, March 14, 2014

colour

Greener Pastures 2 - oil on wood - 8x8
Hard to believe under all this snow that there could ever be grass this green again...but we can hope.  I had challenged myself to use a super limited palette here, using only cadmium orange, ultramarine blue, and white and I did almost paint the whole thing using only those two.  Those two colours will produce a really nice value range, but the tone of the colours produced is muted (that's what happens mixing complimentary colours) much like an overcast day.  I wanted that spring feeling...sunshine... so squeezed out a blob of cadmium yellow pale onto the palette.   Interesting how that one colour can add such zing.  I really love fooling around with colour, it has such an ability to change how we see things.

8 comments:

  1. Lovely painting Sally. I would love to be in that scene!

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  2. Oh, what a fun experiment. And a lovely painting too!
    I can't remember what grass feels like anymore. I hope we see it soon :)

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  3. Love the painting and the discussion of colour. Wonderful!

    XOXOXO Barbara

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  4. LOVE this Sally! The greens are divine and I'm impressed to see what you can do with such a limited palette. Beautiful composition!

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  5. Hi Keith, thank you! you are in that scene....down by the river, fishing:)

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  6. Hi Annette, enjoying the process for sure...i hope you are beginning to recover from your nasty cold. loved the onions in your socks ...never heard of that one!

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  7. Thanks for your encourging comments Barbara. Have a marvelous spring.

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  8. Hi Wendy, thank you! it always amazes me to see how far you can push just 2 or 3 colours...and the byproduct is that it always creates great harmony in the painting.

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