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Cad Yellow
It was not my intention to feature cadmium yellow but cadmium works almost like yellow gouache so it definitely stands out in this little watercolor sketch and thus has become the color for this weeks post. This is a work completed while participating in Karen Abend Sketchbook Revival … this was a workshop featuring Shari…
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Blooming Color
The landscape is filled with the pale pink blossoms of cherry, plum and tulip trees. This week the color is Quinacridone Magenta. This was one of the first colors on my palette when I started watercolor. A perfect pink tone for the trees in bloom.
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Color week 14
Naples Yellow is semi-transparent and non-staining. It is the color for what we are dreaming about right now, sun-baked landscapes, wheat fields, and sunflowers! The origins of Naples yellow remain unclear, but it’s one of the oldest known pigments. We know it was used by Egyptians as far back as circa 1500 BC to add yellow colour to glass,…
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Week 12 Color Pencil
A recent class in the use of color pencil got me thinking, how did they come about…? An Early History of colored pencils is not too well documented. It is known that Ancient Greeks used wax-based crayons and Pliny the Elder recorded that Romans also used colored crayons based on wax. First colored pencils appeared in the…
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