Yes, it is a fact I am obsessed with mixing the perfect greys – warm grey, neutral grey and the right blue-grey. So that is the focus of this new minimal palette! I’m trying to reduce colours (refer to previous posts to find out more!) Rather than doing elaborate neat colour charts (something that would...
CONTINUE READINGThanks to some suggestions (Vicky and Robyn and others?) I had another go today at lunch using only Winsor blue(yellow shade) perm rose and burnt sienna. If I mix the purple first then add the bs it works easily. Not sure what my problem was last night. Was it the Daniel smith phthalo or the...
CONTINUE READINGThanks for all the comments (more on Flickr and Facebook!) This was my first attempt (from last night before getting your comments) at mixing greys using all kinds of combinations of burnt sienna and phthalo blue – adding perm rose or lemon yellow and also trying with some indigo. N one of these achieved the...
CONTINUE READINGMy first attempt at a sketch with a minimal palette… Help- how do I mix a nice grey – (a warm grey) with phthalo blue (a scary colour when one is used to cobalt blue deep!)… These neutrals are a bit green. All done with a 15mm flat brush. More about Kate’s color challenge...
CONTINUE READINGI can feel the urge to do a morning and evening sketch and complete the spread in a day… Going to take me a while to really feel at home with this format (oh! It is so small… Not that small I know!) Splashing paint in the morning with a large large brush working wet...
CONTINUE READINGMorning sketch and dinner sketching… Oh! It is nice to be using real watercolour paper for a change BUT it is a challenge to get used to the smaller size page as you can see here! Crowded page…and as often happens I draw the entrée too large. Great Thai meal with my parents to celebrate...
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