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Zinc
Hello Jean,
Please excuse the lull in response/dialogue, I've been having apartment issues.
Yes, I think you will find zinc white a very useful tool. Also think about using yellow where you might normally reaech for white. The zinc will enable you to mix a white pigment into whatever color and retain more of the chroma. As well as the white opaque/transparent distinction, you can use all of the pigments based upon their hospitality toward light. The distinction between the opacity of cadmium red, for instance, and the transparency of madder lake is immense and very useful. I recommend trying to build your painting using organic pigments and earth colors pushing the color relationships until you feel more comfortable with chromatically active painting. In other words, by using theories of color contrast and complementary colors, at the same time minimizing the occurrence of (unnatural) purely white light in your painting, the relative unity of the aforemnetioned palette will provide an excellent foundation for the rest of your painting practice (not to mention an historical one).
Such a pleasure,
Brian
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