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Old 01-15-2003, 09:26 AM   #20
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One of my biggest advances in mixing color came when I finally, and reluctantly, sat down and did what I'd been resisting, but what so many masterful painters had been telling me to do, something very basic:

Take a hue from your palette. Tint it with white, again, again, again. Watch what happens. Do it with all the hues on your palette. It's astonishing how they behave, some changing quickly, some slowly. (Case in point: compare classic alizarin crimson with the
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