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Triadvent Day 3: Nickel Azo Yellow, Burnt Sienna Deep, Prussian Blue

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Today I drew:

With the Prussian Blue, a warm transparent yellow (similar to old-school Indian Yellow), and an earth color, this reminded me of Winslow Homer’s palette, so I painted a little Winslow Homer copy as my image.

Reference: “The Blue Boat” by Winslow Homer.

The greens are gorgeous, of course! NAY + Prussian Blue is green heaven. And NAY + BSD makes a Quin Gold hue, so that’s nice.

I wished I had a redder red to paint red details and to mute the blue. Both the yellow and the BSD tended to make the Prussian Blue turn green, so I had no way of making black/gray, warmer blue, or shadows other than green.