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Color Spotlight: Perylene Green (PBk31)
Technically, Perylene Green isn’t a green pigment, but a black one: “Pigment Black 31”. It has a distinctly greenish tone, however, and is often used as shadows in foliage.
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Palette Profile: Lisa Spangler
I discovered the artist Lisa Spangler (@sideoats) through Art Toolkit, where she sometimes teaches classes. Lisa recently posted a “What’s on my palette?” post, which as you know, is my cue to explore a palette!
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My 2022 Sketchbook: All The Paintings of the Year
I thought it would be helpful, as I review 2022 and move into 2023, to review the paintings I’ve done this year! This may not include everything I painted (especially practice and swatches), but these are all the paintings that I was happy enough to save to my photo roll. The stats: TOTAL: 175 Numbers…
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Color Spotlight: Perylene Violet (PV29)
A dark, violet-toned maroon. Botanical artists use it for deep floral shadows. More violet than Perylene Maroon. With its leafy counterpart, Perylene Green, it mixes up a dark black.
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A Year of Art! 2022 Retrospective/2023 Resolutions
2022 has been an exciting year for me as a watercolor artist, at the same time as it’s been a pretty dreary year personally, with health challenges for myself and my family members, career angst, and garden variety depression. But I think that hard times in life are when we need art the most, and…
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Lessons from Artist Palette Profiles
I’ve been doing a regular feature, Artist Palette Profiles, for months now. In this feature, I look up the palette colors used by an artist I admire, and I compare my own colors to see how I could imitate them better. To be honest, I think it’s probably one of the most boring features I…
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Color Spotlight: Brilliant Hansa Yellow (PY74)
A bold middle yellow, extremely similar to (but distinct from) Hansa Yellow Medium (PY97).
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Should I only get single pigment paints?
(Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash) Single pigment paints are those that contain only one pigment, or color-making chemical. By contrast, mixed paints or “convenience mixes” contain multiple pigments. A frequently-given piece of advice is to stick to single pigment paints. But why? What are single pigment paints? The most obvious attribute of a paint…
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Artist Palette Profiles: Kim Crick
Kim Crick has an amazing database of pigments and reviews of tons of colors, including brand comparisons. It’s an amazing resource. Today, I’m looking at her list of recommended lightfast colors.
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Color Spotlight: Chromium Oxide Green (PG17)
A strikingly opaque, dull green that granulates in midtone.
