Changing Greens on My Palette
Are you a creature of habit like me. My first real art teacher shared his palette with me over 20 years ago and I’ve been using it ever since. However, recently after trying out sap green in a Golden Open Acrylics set, I decided to change from Hookers Green to Sap Green.
I know, right? Huge change for me (she said with her tongue firmly planted in her cheek). The thing is, you have to know how each color on your palette reacts to each other color.
There are 2 ways to do that. You can make a color chart or you can do what I did in the video below. I chose to see how Sap Green and Hookers Green each reacted with my Cad Yellow medium, Cad Red deep, Alizarin Crimson, Turquoise Deep and white.
When you’re doing something like this you have to wash your brush after each mixture or you really won’t know what you’re getting after each mixture. My point is, it is relatively time consuming but the information you will gain is invaluable.
In the video I’ll show you how to do it and what I learned from it. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them on the video and I’ll get back to you ASAP.
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