Sunday, 13 February 2011

The small pleasures in an artist's life...

Yesterday I treated myself to two new tubes of georgous colours: Permanent Alizarin Crimson and Green Gold, both by Winsor & Newton, from different "collections". Some of my students have been using them and until now if I needed these colours I would mix them up myself, but these are a delightful shortcut and I'm glad I bought them..





The Alizarin is a fantastic deep, rich colour, very much like beetroot or a rich Bordeaux... And the Green Gold is a beautiful mustard like colour, almost olive looking. I love them..! You can see them in the middle of my palette.. (if you think it looks like the cover of a Chinese take-away dish, you're spot on!)





I thought they looked great together so I made this little painting using only the two of them and a little Titanium White, which was great to give them a little more "coverage power" since I start with a black background, (which I do NOT advise if you are only starting to paint!) So here is, with a very unexpected title, "Landscape in Alizarin and Green Gold". 4"x4"


 

Posted by Amélie Gagné at 08:01

7 comments:

  1. Lovely rich colours - beautiful!

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  2. Absolutely divine! You are right to love these colors.

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  3. Thank you Felicia and AnnaMay...!

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  4. I LOVE this one Amelie!! The colours are fantastic. Alizarin is a gorgeous red and with olive green magnificent! Real rich, royal even!!Love it!!

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  5. Alizarin Crimson is a fantastic colour. Mix a TINY bit with Ultramarine Blue if you want to get a great atmospheric sky.

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  6. Philip thanks a lot for the tip..!

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  7. that is lovely...i use to love using alizarin when i painted...it's such a beautiful color!!

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