A demo of getting 11 colours by starting with two complementaries. First you mix the middle one, then the shades either side of it - remembering to wipe the palette knife betweentimes, so as not to contaminate the paint! Test the middle colour and the ones either side by adding a bit of white (not too much) to check that you've made a grey that goes slightly blue one side and orange the other...
I used chrome green and alizarin crimson, and my "grey" was more of a brown - with this much white, it looked like it needed a bit more green, but a darker tone showed it was actually ok. Mixing up enough of each colour was a bit of a problem - we needed quite a bit of paint later when we mixed lighter and darker shades, adding white or black.
In Colour 4 we'll be doing "observational colour" (wonder what that is...) and there's other kinds of colour, expressionistic for example. Lots to learn.
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EXTRAORDINAIRE ! Good teacher, good pupil !Love from Béatrice de Lausanne
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Yummy - yummy! Good enough to eat. I have done this with fabric dying in a class with Lesley Morgan, much fun ;O)
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