On the back of the Loyola park painting I tested out this old tube of raw umber I have had for years but not used much. Every colour in this painting was a mix of raw umber, in the middle of the hay field is approximately the pure colour- a warm straw/toasted marshmallow kind of hue. it made great greens, and some rusty rich oranges. The only problem is when it dries on the palette it is hard to bring back to life, so it really needs to be squeezed fresh. Like orange juice.
The was no particular motivation for this subject, I started with a random brush stroke across the middle, and then the orange shapes, and went from there. The mixing colours were almost everything in my palette, I just wanted to see what happens when you mix raw umber with a bunch of other colours. I would definitely use it again if I paint somewhere warm with a lot of sand, or hay fields.
5 x 7" rough press watercolour, April 2020
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