[Aquanet] The colours of blue

[NitaLeland]

Pat--
I hope you'll be in town when I'm in Calgary for my creativity workshop. Maybe we can get together and work on your palette.

Nita

Nita Leland
nita at nitaleland.com
www.nitaleland.com
http://nitaleland.blogspot.com 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: pat davis 
  To: aquanet 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:20 AM
  Subject: [Aquanet] The colours of blue


  Hi, gang

  Many, many thanks to all of you who took the time to respond to my 
  query. Frankly, your answers leave me in a bit of a quandary. I am still 
  pondering the fate of cerulean  and many other pigments in my paint box. 
  My focus lately has been to purge my palette so as to force myself to 
  get to know a smaller number of pigments a lot better, and I suspect 
  that cerulean will not remain as one of the workhorses. Since colour 
  accuracy is not important to me, I can do this.

  At the same time, I think I am like most painters who occasionally catch 
  the virus that says, "If you buy this (pigment, brush, tool) your 
  paintings will automatically become masterpieces." (What!?? You mean I 
  am the only person who succumbs to this?)

  As usual in the fall after a long, glorious summer of cycling, hiking 
  and chasing the wily trout (Brains about 1/2 the size of a pea) I am 
  getting back into the groove of painting regularly- and it is painful as 
  after the long layoff, I have to rediscover matters of paint 
  application, paint mixing, brushwork, etc. I usually rediscover all this 
  by making horrible mistakes, and I am doing this full-throttle this fall.

  On the positive side, I am taking a life-drawing course to refocus on 
  drawing skills and for the first time after about eight such courses 
  over the years, I am no longer stuck near the bottom of the class wrt 
  achievement. Boy, does that feel good... and strange.

  :-)
  pat


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