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Bianca, I recently posted a minor rant in the same direction as yours.
Artists such as Daniel Greene, Michael Del Priori, Marvin Mattelson, and others get ooohs and aaahs for pre mixing a large number of puddles of paint on their palettes before starting a painting session.
Sanden mixes (or used to mix) just 10, three of which are "neutrals," and he gets kicked around for doing so.
Mind you, I take nothing from Greene, Priori and Mattelson. They are very fine artists. No one can fault them their talent.
But why are they great with their premixes, and Sanden is a scallywag for his?
I've studied with Greene, and used all of these other "systems," and find Sanden's quite logical and reasonable.
One artist/teacher I particularly enjoyed was a man named Jose Parramon who, in one section of his book, The Big Book of Oil Painting, shows you how to mix every possible color using only white, Prussian blue, cad yellow medium, and alizarin crimson. I learned more about color and mixing from Parramon than anyone else.
Sometimes, I think Sanden must feel like Liberace, who laughed all the way to the bank. I think folks get cranky about Sanden's "system" because they didn't think of it first.
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