Colour mixes
After painting now for a year, I thought it worth trying to broaden my knowledge of colour mixes. My mixes are based on my own personal preferences and experiences 'in the field' rather than any fully rounded colour range. I was primarily concerned with trees, skies and shadows.
I like to use mostly transparent pure pigments and I wanted to explore cool and warm versions of the primaries, along with earth tones and particular greens (the single pigment ones). Each page is smaller than A4 so I can take them with me for reference when I go to paint outside.
Shadows and skies. Blues against cool/warm reds, lavender, Indigo, Paynes Grey
Cloud shadows
Blues against earth colours and cool/warm yellows.
Warm blues + warm yellow mixes and cool blues + cool yellow mixes seem best to me.
Interesting greys - Edo's Pthalo green/Al crim tip!!
Trees using different colours for the shadows. Neutral tint works fine but its so much more exciting to use a blue or a brown.The basic green mix is turquiose/Quinacridona.
Greens with earth and yellows
I really link the turquiose/Quinacridona Gold or Gamboge mix for a warm green so I wanted to explore that range.
Thank you for your kind words about my work. :)
I've made up my mind to start practicing more on landscapes ( vistas as you rigthly call them) because it is the subject that I have explored less than any other else. I have made urbanscapes and seascapes but most of my vistas ( this word is very accurate...spot on, is the word that I was missing) are just sketches. I've never bothered to practice more and it is stupid not to bother at all because it is not a matter of technique.
Perhaps it is that I haven't seen for quite some time any kind of so exquisite vista to inspire me that much to paint it.
And I have to admit that I have stuck for quite some time now with Botanicals that excite me with the hyper realism that is required to master them while vistas are most of the times towards the more interpretational side of depiction.
I mean that you interpret a vista you can't make it easily super realistic.
And that is where I'm losing my interest.
I'm not even go out nowadays for urban sketching. I have made countless sketches but I've lost my interest from a point and on because urbanscapes look now all about the same to me. Roads and buildings and cars....
I assume that that is what is called an artist's block. From a point and on subjects look all about the same and then you try to find something to inspire you but you can't find something because all look the same trivial to you. I need inspiration and motivation and something challenging.
P.S . It must be very boring for you to read this psychological analysis of my artistic boredom! lol I'm awful and I'm laughing with myself while I'm thinking what you are going to think about me. You don't know me and you are reading my babbling about not finding anything interesting enough to paint! It's definitely embarasing but.... I'd leave the post as it is because I got in a really honest mode. :)