Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Color Magic

Breathless
6"x6" acrylic on hardboard panel
collection of Sherry Harris
Wow. This is that little demitasse cup again- my new best friend, apparently- I decided to play up the gold on it this time and really go in for all of the colors. Also tried to give it a bit of a glow by lightening the black background just there around the cup, and a little around the string... just wow. Sometimes they just paint themselves, you know?

Used almost no true white till the very end, and mostly Indian Yellow for the gold again, but the rest is a lot of colors, all scrumbled and glazed together for harmony... let's see, mostly my favorite combination of Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold and Quinacridone Burnt Orange, with the shadowing mostly Anthraquinone Blue, and some of a new-to-me color, a nice soft green, Terre Verte Hue.

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