Painting the Nude in Oils by Adele Wagstaff

Author:Adele Wagstaff
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781847979063
Publisher: Crowood
Published: 2015-02-22T22:00:00+00:00

Terre Verte.

Colour mixing exercises using the extended palette

With so many colours to choose from it can be difficult to know which to select when standing in front of row upon row of tubes of oil paint in a shop, or when looking at the many colour swatches of oil paint colour charts in a catalogue.

Emerald Green.

The extended palette listed earlier in this chapter is a good palette with which to start. This selection of colours will enable us to mix most of the colours in the spectrum that we will need. Sometimes, though, we will come across a colour that is difficult to mix using the extended palette alone, and then it will be necessary to add one of the other suggested colours onto your palette.

In theory we would mix all greens on the palette but having terre verte (warm), emerald green (cool) and sometimes the inclusion of viridian can be useful. Additional colours can make the mixing process a lot quicker, and you may find that yellow ochre or raw sienna are ‘must-haves’ alongside the other colours.

Additional colours placed on the palette will help to increase the range of colour mixes you are able to achieve without the mixing taking up an entire session with your model. But do be cautious, as the use of too many colours can become problematic and may result in no particular colour key or harmony with the overall effect clashing and becoming too psychedelic.

A palette that consists of fewer colours, or a particular limited palette can give us a far more pleasing and harmonious colour range within a painting.

The following colour mixing exercise will show how a subtle delicate palette of ‘coloured greys’ suitable for painting flesh can be achieved when mixing from primary colours.

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