in an effort to understand the behavior of the colors in my travel palette i'm mixing them with each other. i'm pleased with my findings.
i have this weird color, brilliant pink, that someone gave me. it's use seems limited and i didn't want it in my home palette so i moved it into the smaller travel box. love the periwinkle color it made with ultramarine blue. also did interesting things with green gold.
the color made from perm red + natural sienna + brilliant pink would be the perfect color for painting watermelon or ruffly hibiscus petals – a warm pink. mmmmmmm. the natural sienna + purple lake (leftover from old cottman set and another color that i put in the travel box to use up) but low and behold it does beautiful things with the sienna. imagine a sunset or a red rock canyon in late afternoon.
i don't know poop about watercolors, but i know plenty about the power of PLAY. and play that results in learning excites the information seeker that lives in my noggin.
the winsor green sister sent me reminded me of ajax or drano. i took an instant dislike to it. but son of a bisquit! look how it mixes with bright violet, perm rose, white, hematite, and GASP piemontite. breathtaking.
okay. gotta go. i'll just be here in my laboratory. mixing & exploring.
maybe i'll have a diet coke in one of their fun new cans. wanna know the name of the background color? sodalite. i could have, but didn't make that one up.
Dear Dr. Moss,
I loved your lecture on paint-mixing and I did extra homework, since I am behind in the Sketchbookery Class….,
on that color Piemontite. Never ever heard of that shade. It is a sorosilicate mineral in the epidote series.
Perhaps it was first found in the Piedmont, Italy region.
Today you can find it in Morocco or New Mexico.
I thought your Natural sienna & Purple Lake combo was the bestest.
Loved your class and now am happy to be reading through your blog updates, happy travels later this summer!
Holly
Great idea! Very fun stuff you are doing!
Have you ever used Nicholson’s Peerless water colors? Sending a link that shows an awesome idea! I think I need to do this with my papers.
I do love these watercolors.
Humid in Southern Oregon, and the vegetable garden is doing great! Love the colors out there! Thanks MAM!
joan back in 2006 right before i started DFLA i made a conscious decision to make more time for art. i wanted to infuse beauty into more areas of my life. i wrote down the 10 commandments for art making and crafted my own schedule/rituals. it was the most powerful thing i EVER did in all my life.
i think you’re new ritual is going to be splendid. please keep sharing about how it’s all going. i for one, want to know!
xo
hi gretchen!
the upcoming december SKETCHBOOKERY session will be an exact duplicate of the current class. next summer i am planning a sketchbookery no. 2 for further explorations with sketching, watercolor, gouache, and play.
How Mom loved her Diet Coke.
Your having way too much fun!
i just took a workshop with sandy webster and we learned how to make paints/pigments from the dirt around us…. not too hard…. it will be fun to make local pigment on travels! you’re doing great… major improvements all the time… i know it’s just fun but you can’t help get better the more you duz sumthin!!
Your color mixes are terrific MAM!! So inspiring. Think I’m gonna have to sketch today……
and take stuff with me tomorrow on my travels to the great northwest xxx
Gabrielle
Just a quick question if I may ask? I have loved every second of sketchbookery and have seen mention of another session this coming December. Will this be a repeat of the current one or another entirely new “sketchbookery II” ?
thanks so much!
Yowza your laboratory color experiments are AWESOME, so if it’s all right with you, I’m gonna plop myself in a corner of Moss cottage and just ever so quietly sit and peek over your shoulder so I can absorb as much as I can. Your posts are like little gems of brilliance and sparkle on this girl’s sometimes dusty and over loaded brain…I need a little splashes of color to follow so I don’t get lost a midst all the inspiration…you remind that slow and steady study of such pleasures and repeated motions all lead to the pure joy of discovery of PLAY…..You just rock!
I’ve said for years that I’d make a color mix chart of all the paints I have . One artist frames these charts and hangs on her studio wall. Makes for beautiful graphics. Who doesn’t love color? I’m putting this on my “play list”, setting a time limit for getting it done. If you look at like play it doesn’t seem like work, right?
I follow Quinn Creative blogger whose post this morning was rituals…like the routine/ritual we go thru every day for getting ready for work, showering, eating breakfast, following the same route to the work place. She suggests doing the same with making art…set up a ritual by making a specific time slot, a Priority for art….until you make it a priority higher on the list than laundry or watching TV, it won’t become a habit/ritual. After a week, she claims it gets easier…I’m going to give this a “play” time significance, a Play Priority starting today!
QuinnCreative’s blog:
http://quinncreative.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/rituals-work/
I want to play with watercolors, but just cant get brave enough. I stick to coloring with fabric. I think it’s why I love scrap quilts so much.
Love the playing with mixing to customize your palette and inspire future pieces.
Will you share the brand of Brilliant Pink? I’d like to get some, but it is available from multiple manufacturers.
Love these beautiful mixes. Methinks I’m going to have to get me some watercolors and play! (And take sketchbookery next time around 🙂
Thank you for reminding me that it is all about the experimentation!
My biggest challenge is getting to new colors. I tend to go back to out of the box or mix same with same. This is a great solution – finding a way to make the ucky ones work in spite of themselves. Bravo!