Whitaker Green

[Lacey Lewis]

Originally Posted by William Whitaker

What a wonderful bunch of posts. All of you said it better than I can.

Play around with your colors. See what they do. The goal is to get to the point where you can mix any color you like without thinking.

Ahh... Someday! I admit, I do need to move the paint around the palette a bit more.

Originally Posted by Garth Herrick

At first I thought you might be interested in painting your studio wall with the same color, as I did.

The day I get a studio, or just a room to call my own, it will be painted this color or possibly the "mesa grey" I've seen in discussion on this forum as well.

I scanned the wall color with my Gretag-MacBeth Eye-One color spectrometer.

LOL! I'm going to be giggling for quite a while over that one.

Seriously, though, thanks for going through all the trouble! Based on that, it looks like I could try out yellow ochre and black.

[Mari DeRuntz]

A very precious gem is buried in this thread - courtesy Steven - the possibilities of blue you can mix with black and white.

As an experiment, open your paint box and tint out each "black" you have stashed there into three or four values of grey. Make a chart so you know what's what tomorrow morning, and dab each line of mixtures onto a warm-toned ground.

[Steven Sweeney]

For those working in this type of training protocol, where a monochromatic cast painting is slated, ivory black and white can in fact produce such an icy cold blue that you will be unhappy with the result if you do not add something like raw umber to warm it a bit. Otherwise it will appear that you submitted an entry in the St. Paul Winter Carnival's ice sculpture contest.

This tip was serendipitously and generously passed on to me, the advice of yet another (absent by then, on to bigger and better things) student, and it "saved" the piece I was working on. If you have a painting secret, give it away -- it will come back to you many times magnified.