Elizabeth,
Yes, they are Marvin's mahl stick supports! After trying it I loved it. I bought one right away. No more looking for my mahl stick! It became part of the easel and I don't waste time any longer looking for it. I really like that.
Cheryl, just getting the list of colors would have been fairly useless to me. You see, as Kim mentioned, there is a system of mixing that reminds me of having pastels. There are strands of colors each going from the darkest value to the lightest, 2-9.You mix say...the yellow strand using yellow ochre pale & white to achieve value 9 (the lightest before white) and you use yellow ochre & yellow ochre pale for next values, then yellow ochre & raw umber to achieve even darker values. After doing that you have a complete range of yellows (values 2-9)at your disposal. When you look at your resource at a yellow area you ask yourself how does it differ from my wash in? I look at my palette of yellows, pick the value, add a touch of whatever it takes to achieve what I see and there you go.I don't this gives this method a fair shake. We had 6 days of solid learning to be "introduced".
Kim: As Marvin says..
.It is all painting. As I mix my palette, I'm evaluating hues/values/intensity. Over and over. It took 1.5 hours the first time. I expect it to take less time than it took to write my emails over the last 2 days. about 1 hr. I will be able to determine my value etc of paint that I need immediately. No more guessing. I will not have to trial and error my way through a painting. I'm doing a cougar right now that I worked on for at least 3 weeks pushing and pulling color over and over. Too intense, too dull, wrong hue. Geez! ! ! Then I got Marvins list of supplies for the workshop and saw the care and purpose in his list, figured I better slow down and choose very wisely in my cougar painting. I limited my palette, approached with purpose and wha la. It finished itself. No kidding. It will be up on my website in a couple of hours.
