It’s autumn again and that means the challenge of mixing fall foliage colors is here! As usual value is the most important consideration but orchestration of chroma and temperature is key as well. Remember that more chromatic color often lives in the midtones. So mixing to a midtone value is important. We often see the […]
Mixing Low Chroma Greens
In the recent post Simplify Mixing Greens we saw how using Chromatic Black as a starting point for mixing greens can result in a wide variety of naturalistic greens. In this short video, I use Williamsburg Neutral Greys as a starting point to mix low chroma greens. You can use the premixed Williamsburg or Gamblin […]
Lessons From a Walk
Last summer, while out for my usual early morning walk, I noticed this big foliage mass of a tree which hangs over our road. The thing that struck me about it was that it perfectly demonstrated a couple of points that come up when painting trees, and really anything in Nature. I took a picture […]