Mixing the three primary colors gives an artist such a range of color it is mind-boggling. First there are so many pigments you can draw from for your primary colors. For example, for red you could select from burnt sienna, alizarin crimson, cadmium red or Windsor red, among many others. Then you can select your yellows and blues from a whole catalog of choices which gives you so many color combinations.
In this watercolor the vegetation is nearly black. And not a dull black but a lively one. It has taken years to discover this dark. I was experimenting the other day when I came upon mixing phthalo blue with yellow ochre and a reddish brown on my palette.
This is a dark you may see when you are driving along the Maine coast in the form of spruce trees, in the distance. I have learned that some of these colors are so ingrained in our unconscious mind from our experiences and memories of childhood. Most of these color associations originate in the landscape we call home or have lived.
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