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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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My Old Master Palette
There are times when I see an artist's paintings that I wonder what colors they use.
In my work, I am greatly inspired by the Old Masters. Here is the limited core palette of (mostly Windsor-Newton) colors I use to get "that look"...
*Titanium White
Zinc White
*Yellow Ochre Pale (Windsor Newton)
*Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Orange
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna
Alizarin Crimson
*Indian Red
Raw Umber
Burnt Umber
French Ultramarine Blue
Prussian Blue
Ivory Black
* Indicates opaque paints. All the rest of the colors in my palette are glaze colors.
Note: I seldom, if ever, use the blues except as glaze colors. I make the color of "blue" the old-fashioned way - by mixing ivory black and titanium white. (When you see my work, you would swear I use blue.....but I don't!)
Although I think that there is no color that I cannot mix with these paints , I do experiment with other colors.
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