Practice Practice and more Practice...

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” 

                  – Pablo Picasso

Spent the evening trying to familiarise with the shades that I have. 

The excercise had started with putting the greens that was there in my colour kit on paper. Just to see what shades they actually gave. 

The first column are the greens that I have (poster colour+pan). Second and third are different values of the respective hues made by adding water to the brush. For the first have used a relatively less wet brush to get the full value of the shade. 

For the second dip the same brush in water once or twice and tap on the edge of tge glass to remove excess water. 

For the third repeat what was done for the second column again, resulting in a much lighter value of the hue. 

Fourth row was created by mixing yellow to the respective green. Here, in the same circle have tried to bring in different values.

And fifth row involves mixing of the primary colours yellow and blue to give green. I had three blues in my pan box and have just seen what the different shades give when mixed with yellow.

Better do it on white paper. Since I didn't have any white papers, have done on what ever I had. 

Purpose of this excercise is gaining an understanding on colours and getting acquainted with our brushes, water, pigments, mixing and for future reference.

The excercise went on by taking another sheet of paper and filling them with circles for more colour combinations. This time I thought will experiment with the Reds I had.

I don't know the name of the colours in my paint box and it's a pain to be confused when trying to plan out the piece that we intend to do. So, it's always good to have a colour chart of different combinations, mixing, concentrations etc.

Here, similar approach as I did for the Greens. 

From fourth I have mixed the respective hues with colours on top of each column.

First from 4th is obtained from mixing with yellow.

Second from mixing with phthalo blue. Then with cobalt blue and the next is with prussian blue.

Next three are with the blues from my paint cake set.

Last column is just random.

In each of these I have build up gradients.

It's an interesting and absolutely necessary excercise. These are not perfect but perfection will come with more practice.

"As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward."

                    – Vincent van Gogh

Color charts can be used as a reference when painting from a picture or nature for instance. Keep them handy and also two jars of water and a couple of tissue papers and...

Keep Painting.

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04.06.2021