In my experience brown is a tricky color to come up with. It's not that I can't create a combination of pigments that make a brown. However, I see a huge, subtle range of browns out in nature. For example, the rich, muddy banks of a river bed are full of a range of browns. Those colors resonate with me but then I go back into the studio and am dumbstruck when it comes to creating a brown.
Recently, I have been studying John Singer Sargent's watercolors, many include a whole range of browns, whether along the canals of Venice or in some of his interior scenes.
This experience has made me rethink the color brown. This quick watercolor was done by combining burnt umber/cadmium red and ultramarine blue. The deeper browns convey a somber mood to the overall landscape.
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