Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Paul Foxton
Sharon, I noticed you use naples yellow and no cadmium yellow, is there a particular property to naples yellow that you like? I found this description on a web site today:
I can't remember ever having tried it, but I thought I might do one painting with it instead of my usual cadmium yellow light just to see.
|
I also like the Naples Yellow and find that it works well as the light, bright, sunny yellow that is easy to incorporate in complexion colors.
But I recently found a wonderfully transparent gold ochre that almost resembles the Naples Yellow when mixed with white.
There is a small dot of the Naples Yellow from W&N in the middle of the picture of my palette. The other mixtures are made from Cadmium Yellow Light and Transparent Yellow Ochre and Titanium White.
The upper mixture is only Transparent Yellow Ochre and Titanium White and is pretty close to Naples. A tad of red would do the trick or maybe if it was mixed with Zinc White that is more yellow ?
The point of all this is that I want my colors to be inter mixable and not the static "notes" that i press when I need a certain "skin" color or "grass" color.
By mixing all the time I will get different notes all the time and hopefully a greater variation.
With the Cadmium Yellow Light I can mix it in the red line and also in the blue to get vivid greens.
Allan