After quite a bit of painting lately my palette was due for a good cleaning. You see the abundant earth colours, I am carrying six of them now ranging from ochre to sienna to umber. The greens in the background display a hue shift from a low chroma turquoise in the top right to a fairly intense green, almost chartreuse in the bottom left. Colour designations are rather arbitrary, many colours could be called green or blue for example, there is no set criteria. As an artist, you still need to have a concept in mind, and an understanding of how the retina works. Computer monitors simplify things a lot, they produce only 3 primary colours including red green and blue light which can mix almost any hue. As a painter I use many more primary colours than a monitor, up to about 7 are in my palette. I define primary colour as a high chroma (rainbow) colour that can not be easily mixed from other colours. The ones I use are yellow, orange, red, magenta, blue, cyan, green. I also have a few intermediates, and of course, the earth colours which are low chroma, and some darks.
Palette cleanser: Green and Gold Fragments , 9 x 12" watercolour paper, watercolour, August 2021 (No. 3825a)
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