Speaking of tutorials...with another class coming up at Selby Gardens and an Art Trip to England hovering off in August, it seemed like a good idea to discuss those icky greens that show up on many pre-filled travel palettes. Many travel palettes come with viridian or phthalo green and while the colors are pretty, the greens are not very natural looking, as in not at all! Making friends with those pigments will go a long way towards making painting the great outdoors a whole lot easier!

The first post addresses finding out just what that green pigment will look like when mixed with the other pigments on the palette and can be found here. 

The second post takes what we learned in our experiments from the first post and puts them into action by painting simple subjects and can be found at this link.  

The third post, which will appear on Friday, March 17th (not so coincidentally St. Patrick's Day!), and will address using green mixes in landscape sketches as well as creating the look of a grouping of leaves without having to paint each and every one.  

Could there be anything more fun to paint than a Flamingo?! I'm not sure what it would be. Of course, if these birds weren't pink but gray and brown, it would seem as though pterodactyls still walked (flew?) upon the earth. But they are pink and that makes them a joy for artists to capture in our sketchbooks! 

This Independent Learning Class is available at The Imaginary Realm!