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Oil Palette and Potential

Oil Palette and Potential

Returning to mucking in  oils after 10 years of sloshing around in watercolor, it has been a joy --and an eye opener-- discovering how different pigments react in different binders. Alizarin Crimson and Viridian do not sing the same properties in these two mediums!...

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Mixing Spring Greens

Mixing Spring Greens

Whether one mixes greens from blues and yellows or uses greens from the tube, greens need to be warmed. Mixing greens for Eastern spring is fun. But I just figured out, not so much a formula but a Guiding Principal. I am a bit embarrassed it has taken me this long to...

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