Whitaker Green

[Mari DeRuntz]

A very precious gem is buried in this thread - courtesy Steven - the possibilities of blue you can mix with black and white.

As an experiment, open your paint box and tint out each "black" you have stashed there into three or four values of grey. Make a chart so you know what's what tomorrow morning, and dab each line of mixtures onto a warm-toned ground.

[Steven Sweeney]

For those working in this type of training protocol, where a monochromatic cast painting is slated, ivory black and white can in fact produce such an icy cold blue that you will be unhappy with the result if you do not add something like raw umber to warm it a bit. Otherwise it will appear that you submitted an entry in the St. Paul Winter Carnival's ice sculpture contest.

This tip was serendipitously and generously passed on to me, the advice of yet another (absent by then, on to bigger and better things) student, and it "saved" the piece I was working on. If you have a painting secret, give it away -- it will come back to you many times magnified.