Earth colours include browns, oranges, greens, yellows, even blue. They tend to be less saturated versions, which means they are slightly grey or dull as compared to the bright colours. In fact brown is a dark version of orange. Next time you drink some coffee or tea with milk, you are looking at an earth brown. I mixed variations of earth colours in this painting, and included some of the brighter hues like red yellow orange. In the end, there seemed to be an image of a jester, hence the name.
Jester of Earth 9 x 12" watercolour paper, watercolour, February 2021 (#2526b)
What is earth without wind? We just need some fire and we got ourselves a popular band! (Earth, Wind and Fire) This painting was done on the last of my hot press cuttings, the paper tends to absorb paint resulting in an earth tint. I mixed the greens from primarily orange paint along with phthalo or perylene greens. The sky was all pastel tones, and it looked like wind blowing over the trees, hence the name. That also explains the name of my blog. I should have called this blog 'hence the name'.
Pastel Wind 5 x 7" hot press 90lb, watercolour, February 2021 (No. 2558b)
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