Re-organizing my palette and charting my colors may have been the best move I have ever made. I started a new painting yesterday and everything went smashingly. Ok, ok, let me pump the brakes for a second. It's still me painting, so the ceiling on the painting isn't all that high. But having the colors correlate to the color wheel made mixing things soooooooo easy. I used to have everything compartmentalized. Blues all the way over here, reds all the way over there, yellows are in their own corner too, and green has blue and yellow, hmm ... where to put them.
Well, now I can easily see how my colors relate to each other, and can mix any secondary or tertiary colors with ease. And since I don't really like using grey from a tube because it never seems to really be the shade of grey that I want, I can quickly make it up.
I don't expect any John Singer Sargent's or Winslow Homer's to come off my easel any time soon, but I'm totally excited to be able to see the colors and how they work together much better than I ever had been able to before.
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