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December Newsletter
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Creating Luminous winter colors
December is a great month to focus on winter and snow paintings. It's fresh and we aren't tired of the white fluffy stuff yet. I dug out two older snowy paintings for examples of luminous winter colors. They both were painted with a limited palette of three paint colors, plus spatters and splashes of an opaque white for adding the snowflakes.
The following two paintings were painted with the same color triad...
Alizarin Crimson, Phthalo Green and Quinacridone Gold.
Alizarin Crimson, Phthalo Green and Quinacridone Gold.
The grays in these paintings were made by mixing the two complementary colors of Alizarin Crimson and Phthalo Green. There are hundreds of potential grays available when you mix complementary colors. In fact, the grays you mix will not be flat or boring, but luminous and exciting. Your painting will have much more interest when you mix grays instead of using and painting with grays out of a tube.
Project idea:
Make a chart using triad color scheme to mix beautiful, luminous grays. Click the link below for a free printable pdf chart like the one I designed below. Try using different triad color combinations to see what different colors and grays you can achieve. The colors I used in the following chart are, Quinacridone Magenta, Windson Blue (green shade) and Transparent Yellow. Have fun!!!
Color Mixing Chart:
| triad_chart_mixing_grays.pdf |
