The Wood Carver

[John Reidy]

Pat,

You're correct, it is a limited pallette. It is the pallette developed by Marvin Mattelson and consists of earth tones, 4 strings of color - a grey string, a yellow string, a warm red string and a cool red string. These are for flesh tones which I use primarily for the overall painting rounding out the pallette with other colors as needed such as blue.

You can find many posts on Marvin's pallette here in the forum.

Thanks for your kind words.

[Grethe Angen]

Hello John,
Congratulations. the joy of creating is evident both by the subject and the artist, wonderful.

[John Reidy]

Thank you Gretha,

You are correct about the joy of creating. Today I delivered a small portrait and the response from the subject and her husband was very moving. I swear that if I didn't need the money I'd do it just for the sheer joy.

Thanks for looking.