Sunday, June 18, 2023

Color Mixes & Landscape Painting

                                                                                        (C)2023 Dale DiMauro
 

Discovering new color combinations is always inspiring. It simply changes my relationship to the landscape and transforms how I see the paper. 

This blue-gray pigmentation is the result of combining quinacridone violet with phthalocyanine green. The cool, yellow in the foreground is hansa yellow which seemed like a fit to drop into the foreground.

This blue-gray pigmentation seemed alive when it was wet and full of energy as I worked the edges of the wash. As lively as it is it seemed like a background color, nonetheless.

I write the names of these color combinations on my swatches so I can refer to them when necessary. It is sort of a vocabulary I can draw upon.

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