Yes Lorraine, a darker colour is always mixed into light, particularly into a yellow. Otherwise one would go through double the amount of the lighter colour! (You added the light opera pink into the dark phthalo green, and you had to get more light pink opera on your palette, to complete the mix.) I think it is fun that we get a blue from a pink and green! I would have thought that we would have got a dark neutral, like DS Quin rose with DS Phthalo green. My tip; Did you know that we have blue purple shadows with our golden sun light? If we have a red light source we get a greenish shadow. Our shadows look like the the essence of the complementary! Can you please explain the reasoning behind the name of one colour upside down on your mixing pairs sheet? A Jane Blundell tip while working with her at one of her courses ; create a sandstone building in DS goethite (and DS buff titanium), let it dry, and then add a light Jane's grey glaze wash to become the shadow areas. (Pb29 and Pbr7). It is all liftable, in case you go to dark! Not like Peyne's grey at all... Thanks for the video. In kindred spirit Eliza in Dulwich Hill, Sydney Australia Sunday 24th of July, 2022 8:46pm
Thanks Eliza for your reply and useful tips. I try not to over think my colour mixing but use learned info to narrow chances of making bad choices. In regards to the upside down writing on the colour chart, it was not intentional but as the video is live it was too late to undo!.
@@lorrainebrownwatercolours Yes brush mileage exists, if one has worked on their art making for approximately 40 years, then one can say they love 10 percent of their work! Regards Eliza. x
Yes Lorraine, a darker colour is always mixed into light, particularly into a yellow.
Otherwise one would go through double the amount of the lighter colour!
(You added the light opera pink into the dark phthalo green, and you had to get more light pink opera on your palette, to complete the mix.)
I think it is fun that we get a blue from a pink and green!
I would have thought that we would have got a dark neutral, like DS Quin rose with DS Phthalo green.
My tip; Did you know that we have blue purple shadows with our golden sun light? If we have a red light source we get a greenish shadow. Our shadows look like the the essence of the complementary!
Can you please explain the reasoning behind the name of one colour upside down on your mixing pairs sheet?
A Jane Blundell tip while working with her at one of her courses ; create a sandstone building in DS goethite (and DS buff titanium), let it dry, and then add a light Jane's grey glaze wash to become the shadow areas. (Pb29 and Pbr7). It is all liftable, in case you go to dark!
Not like Peyne's grey at all...
Thanks for the video.
In kindred spirit
Eliza in Dulwich Hill, Sydney Australia
Sunday 24th of July, 2022 8:46pm
Thanks Eliza for your reply and useful tips. I try not to over think my colour mixing but use learned info to narrow chances of making bad choices. In regards to the upside down writing on the colour chart, it was not intentional but as the video is live it was too late to undo!.
@@lorrainebrownwatercolours Yes brush mileage exists, if one has worked on their art making for approximately 40 years, then one can say they love 10 percent of their work!
Regards Eliza. x