Sunday, June 2, 2019

Playing with Color

(C) 2019 Dale DiMauro

It is rewarding to learn of new pigments or color combinations and experiment with them. This color swatch I come back to repeatedly as it freezes me in my tracks. This ten minute painting can be an abstract or realistic picture dependent on how much effort you want to put into developing it.

In the sky we have cerulean blue. The purplish color comes from the combination of alizarin crimson and ultramarine blue. Below this we have pale yellow cadmium bleeding into this wash.

There is a freshness to these colors and washes I do not find on a daily basis. In addition, the white of the paper, in contrast, adds a speckling and hard edge.

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