[Aquanet] Fw: Cobalt Blue

[NitaLeland]

Take that Payne's Gray and use it with earth colors like Raw Sienna and Burnt Sienna, Quinacridone Gold and Brown Madder or Perylene Maroon. With the right colors, it's wonderful. With everything else, blah.
Nita

Nita Leland
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  From: wtrclr 
  To: aquanet at cleverwhiz.com 
  Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 10:40 AM
  Subject: [Aquanet] Fw: Cobalt Blue


  Glad of Nita's warning about Daniel Smith's Rose madder.  I use permanent Rose of Windsor Newton.  I stick to the one brand so as not to confuse them. An orphaned color , for which I have a dozen tubes, is Payne's Gray.  Mario Cooper demanded it and then Carleton Plummer said "Get that Payne's Gray out of your palette!"  He was right though it makes a lovely green with lemon yellow..  
  My favorite color is blue so I use a lot of Cobalt (Windsor Newton) ,as it is the most neutral, to make lavenders and purples.  Jean Dobie drew my attention to the reason. Ultra Marine and Thalos and Cerulean are warm and gray the reds.   I do a lot of skies in my local landscapes. The river scenes are long and narrow and I want to fit them in a standard size frame, so I.have a lot of sky.   Charlie Sovak taught us to start at top  with warm and light on side where sunlight starts and grade to ultramarine on opposite. As you move down toward horizon grade from more intense color to very pale thalo or cerulean at.  Both Edgar Whitney and John Pike started with washes of pale yellow and or red at horizon.  Pike called those washes "Early Pearly".  Unfortunately Pike died as I was about to begin his classes.  My local teacher, Dick Ohs, former President of NEWS, www.norteastws.com,  was a student of Pike for years and passed on a great deal of his wonderful techniques.. His photo and bio on opening page of NEWS web site.
  this photo from page 65 on my Web Site. www.mewhitehill.com/page65.html, 

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