I don’t like separate sketchbooks as a rule...but I LOVE having a special colour sketchbook to record my colour explorations. It has been really helpful to be easily able to find previous experiments and also having not pressure to make it into a beautiful page (which of course I kina have in my daily sketchbook – ok..I admit it!)
Anyway, here are my follow up mixes from my failure in T2 last night to mix a nice red. In the end I realised that my lemon yellow was wrong... That with a different yellow Py3 I am able to mix a red with W&N Permanent Rose PV19. (BTW, if you don’t know DS refers to Daniel Smith). To get an orange New Gamboge PY158 seems to be working ok – or with the same PY3 and PV19 mix with more yellow.
In the end I might have to split one of my full pans to two half pans if this mixing proves too hard to achieve consistently...but I am SURE loving the full pans and the challenge of working with less colours.
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I'm enjoying your experiments with colour mixing. And I only use 2 reds - permanent rose and cadmium red - so I was delighted to see you use P Rose too and how you mix with it.
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