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Mike,
This works for me: I use a limited palette for the underlayer, and I use mars colours for their richer quality and opacity. These colours are Mars yellow light, Mars Red (cold), what was sold to me as Mars blue black (actually iron oxide blue black) and now an opaque Titanium White.
This is essentially a red,yellow,blue palette.
Doing this I can concentrate on modeling, shape correcting and so on. The colours are easily rematched and anticipate the overcoat. The overcoat is much brighter, by the way.
I no longer have to worry about rematching or whether I have made sufficient paint mixes for areas to be painted. However, please note that I am working off of an oil colour study and a cartoon. My hand held palette size is 9.5" x 7.25".
Ever since figuring out the entire layer process like this, life has become very simple and I can totally focus on my compositions, as well as my colour studies.
Hope this helps.
Oh, my paintings are generally over 36 x 36" and getting larger.
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Khaimraj
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