Controlled palette - mostly hand-made oil paint with some commercial paint (details at More Info link) by Stefan Mackey, Oil

Controlled palette - mostly hand-made oil paint with some commercial paint (details at “More Info” link)

Medium: Oil

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Titanium for mixing is first phthalo green, then phthalo blue greenish, phthalo blue reddish, then cadmium red, then cadmium yellows and orange and titanium, 2 vermilions, naphal red, 2 rose madders, alizarin, ultramarine blue, terra rosa, burnt sienna, transparent oxide red, transparent oxide brown, burnt umber, raw umber, violet made with ultramarine blue and alizarin and titanium, then cobalt violet – cobalt and alizarin, then phthalo violet – phthalo blue and alizarin, then gray-ivory, Indian yellow, raw sienna, Italian earth, yellow ochre, 2 Naples yellows, then string of greens.  First mix cobalt with yellow light – this is number 6, mix to orange or ochre value.  Now number 3, mix phthalo green with cadmium lemon or yellow pale, now mix numbers 3 and 6 to get 4 and 5.  For 1 and 2, mix white and lemon with number 3.  For darker greens, mix ultramarine violet with number 6 to get through to 13.  Then cadmium green pale, cinnabar green, viridian green, sap green, permanent green, cadmium green, ivory black, lead white, 2 titaniums, manganese blue, phthalo blue greenish, 2 ceruleans, manganese blue reddish, cobalt, ultramarine blue deep, ivory, lemon yellow and white, lemon yellow, yellow extra light, yellow light, yellow medium, yellow deep, yellow deeper, 2 oranges, cadmium red light, cadmium red medium, 2 cadmium red deeps, alizarin crimson permanent.  You need to mix phthalo green or blue and cadmium red light and alizarin to middle value or orange value.  Control palettes are mostly for en plein air (painting outdoors).  On the workshop's first day we got samples of the palette then went home and made our own palettes.  Next day we painted.


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