01-26-2002, 02:23 AM
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FT Pro, Mem SOG,'08 Cert Excellence PSA, '02 Schroeder Portrait Award Copley Soc, '99 1st Place PSA, '98 Sp Recognition Washington Soc Portrait Artists, '97 1st Prize ASOPA, '97 Best Prtfolio ASOPA
Joined: Jun 2001
Location: Peterborough, NH
Posts: 1,114
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Yes really. In my portrait of Anna (and James) above, the background is painted with Ivory Black (plus white).
There is NO BLUE PAINT in this painting!
The "secret" here is the use of the "earth" palette (described in detail in another post). The addition of any "chemical" color outside of this palette, (for example, sap green) would blow the whole delicate color balance and I would not be able to pull off this substitution of black for blue.
Sometime, I'll dig out a landscape I recently painted and scan it....it really fools the eye...and I love to do that!
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