Sketched from the parking lot across from the Knoxville Museum of Art, while the rain fell, the clouds rolled in, and the wind rocked the car from side to side. I didn't even take the time to run into the museum today, thinking more that it would be smart to head home before all you-know-what broke loose!
I was very happy with the sketch before the watercolor washes. Today I tried the triad of venetian red, french ultramarine, and yellow ochre. I really thought they would combine to make richer greys and provide much more color mixing options than the earlier triad*, but they felt weak together. I need to refer to yet another book I have checked out from the library (on Bill Renzulli's advice), "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green" by Michael Wilcox to see what I missed here. Perhaps I should have used cobalt blue?
So, to all, er, both, of my readers, what primary triads do you recommend?
(*Indian red, cerulean blue, and raw sienna)
5 comments:
Hi Linda;
I have seen really good results with this DS Firenze triad, although I have yet to do something more with it than just play around. I'm kind of partial to this set, perhaps because I am in Italy visiting family at the moment ;)
Besides, Firenze -or Florence - is one of my favourite cities!
The colours are: Permanent Yellow Deep, Quinacridone Burnt Scarlet, Verditer Blue.
Good Luck!
I love that – "both of my readers" well we are here, even if we don't comment – it's the blooming RSS feeds that makes it look as though no-one reads blogs any more. I can't offer suggestions on a triad as I never know the names of most of the colours I use anyway, but I could do with a tiny watercolour set so I'll be interested to read any comments.
I switch so often that I couldn't possibly offer a suggestion.
(and then there were three... readers that is, *wink)
Both readers? You have more than one? Wow! :-)
I love the Sunsphere skyline - so very, very Knoxville...
And I can't offer you any triad ideas. I just use whatever you squeezed into my palette...(but you can never go wrong with a little Quinacridone Magenta, regardless of what you choose...)
:-D
I'm really liking your cityscapes. I envy your color language. To me it's red, blue and yellow.
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