I've been lured into pure pigment fascination by a friend, so here's one experiment with complements. I found that with transparent w/c I couldn't layer the colors at all or the purples got very gray.
Separation makes the colors shout louder. Is this a metaphor for people?
Process: the painting is slightly too large for my scanner, but this is most of it. Daniel Smith tube paint on 140# paper.
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Hi Nita,
One thing that strikes me about your "practice" paintings, like this, and Color Blocks and Leftover Paint, is how artistic they are. They stand as paintings in their own right. Or do you think I've been influenced by too much post-modern art? No, seriously, I like the composition and the shapes very much.
For us pigment-obsessed people, would you mention which paints you used?
Thank you so much! I mixed 3 purples from erratic blends of alizarin crimson and quin rose with these blues: cerulean, cobalt and ultramarine. For the yellow I used mostly cad medium with some dips of aureolin.
After you asked I realized I used DS paint instead of W/N! They're really pure and intense, my preferred brand (except for the price).
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