Study in Blue 6"x6" oil

Again following Liz Wiltzen's ideas on color/value studies here is my study in Blue.   It was a little tricky.   I used blues in a range from turquoise to bordering on violet.  My palette was titanium white, cadmium yellow medium, cadmium red light, alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue, thalo blue, thalo turquoise and burnt sienna.  After it dries I will try to photograph it again because the dark areas when wet catch so much glare.

The one on the left is a b&w photo of the set-up and on the right is a b&w photo of the painting.

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Study in Yellow 6"x6" oil

This one was hard!   I started on it yesterday and worked on and off all day and by 4:00 the light was gone, time to quit.   Worked on it this morning and finished it finally!!   This took way too long but I think in the end it worked out right.   The photo here did not capture the right shades of yellow but I am so over it!!   I really should do a painting in blue so I at least have one of every primary color.   These would look so cool all together in a grouping!   Thank you Liz Wiltzen for coming up with this exercise!  The large pepper was the hardest for me because of all the fussy shapes around the stem.   My palette was: Titanium white, Cad. lemon yellow, Cad. yellow med, Cad. red light, Ultramarine blue, Thalo blue, Winsor Newton Bt. sienna

Here is the b&w photo of the painting and a b&w photo of the set-up for comparison.  

Glad this one is done!

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Study in Green 6"x6" oil

Here is the second one in my Study of Color series.   Inspired by Liz Wiltzen's blog post about using vivid color to flex your value muscle, I painted a second one using all green.    The palette I used was Titanium white, lemon yellow, Cad yellow medium,  Cad red light, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine blue, Thalo blue and Burnt Sienna (Winsor Newton).   I believe you can achieve great greens by mixing from yellows and blues and in fact get a better variety.   However looking at this now it looks like I used sap green... go figure.

On the left is a b&w photo of the painting and on the right is the b&w photo of the setup.   So you can see the comparison.

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Study in Red 6"x6" oil

Through out the holidays I have been thinking about an exercise that Liz Wiltzen wrote about in her blog about "Using vivid color to flex your value muscle".   It is a very helpful exercise to work on getting your values correct.    Check out her exercise here.   In order to get the red dark enough in the shadow sides you need to mix your red with a blue or green.   Just using a darker red will not work.  Here is the photo of it in black and white to make sure the values are where they need to be.

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