PLAYS WELL WITH GREENS

NOT EASY BEING GREEN

SPEAKING OF COLORS...

Since I’ve been studying and playing with single colors, I thought you’d like to see some beautifully colored pieces I picked up while in Florida last week.  And contrary to what she says, I DID NOT steal them from a mermaid’s cache :)

Sweetie bought the bracelet and the sea glass earrings for me (and early birthday present) - both purchased at the HUGE Coquina Beach Market where there are tons of great vendors.  


The little mermaid tail earrings I got for myself.  


The bracelet has 3 lava stones (the black ones) where you drop in a bit of essential oil and then you have that nice scent around for a while (lasts a few days before needing to retouch).  

Now back to work (play) with the colors :) 

MORE COLORS

Back from vacation and back to some more color studies.  

PHOTOS FROM VACATION

Just returned (Saturday) from another two weeks away to Anna Maria Island.  So here are a few photos to see to warm you up until I get back to my color studies.  Enjoy the birds and the sunshine in these photos.  

EARTHY TONES

Some earth tones.

Quinacridone Gold




Quinacridone Burnt Orange




Permanent Brown

GRANULATING COLORS

Granulating Colors:

Rhodonite Genuine
and
Cobalt Blue

Making a nice violet.

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME?

Rose of Ultramarine






Quinacridone Red



French Ultramarine Blue

STUDYING COLOR - ORANGE AND BLUE

COLOR STUDIES

Pyrrol Orange


Perinone Orange






Organic Vermillion



Scarlet Lake (Holbein)

MORE STUDIES STARTING WITH ORANGE

Perinone Orange

Cobalt Teal Blue



Putting down the Orange first and then the Cobalt Teal, the blue tended to push into the orange.
Putting down the Cobalt Teal first and then the Orange, the orange held its own and stayed in place, neither seeping into the blue or letting the blue seep into it.  

Unless I say otherwise, all the pigments I am using are made by Daniel Smith. 

COLOR STUDIES - ORANGE AND OTHERS

Lunar Red Rock

Indigo

Perinone Orange

2020 = COLOR STUDIES

Last year, I purchased a new watercolor sketchbook.  The paper inside is Indigo artpapers, cold press watercolor, 300 gsm (which is 140#).  It has 4 natural deckle edges, has slip-papers in between each sheet (24 sheets) of the watercolor paper.  It's a bit soft and absorbent (more so than other papers I've used).  So I decided to use it to do some color studies this year.  These are not going to set the world on fire - but it's what I'm doing.

I paint a study on the watercolor paper and then write on the slip paper behind it to talk about the color or my thoughts on the color.

If I remember, I'll date the writing/thoughts.  But I intend to do this throughout 2020, just as an exercise for myself, and to get back to color after working in black and white for a while.  


Here, the first study is Perinone Orange (transparent) and Bismuth Yellow (opaque).

  

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Here's wishing us all a very happy and creative 2020!