If you follow my blog you know that I like to paint pictures of rubbish bins. On the way back from the Snowdon Bakery on Harley street the commuter train went by which caused the barriers to come down and the bells to ring. I took the opportunity to do a quick painting, and midway through another train went by and I managed to get some of the details. In the background are the apartments up on Sherbrooke west. The dumpster was a cool yellow, that is, yellow leaning towards chartreuse. To make that colour you paint out yellow (PY154) and daub in the tiniest amount of green that you can (PG36). It works best if your yellow paint is clean on the palette. If its mucky, then it will not be possible to make that bright yellow. By contrast, you see the sliver of grass on the hill at the left, that is yellow ochre with touches of orange and green, which created a dull neutral yellow. Knowing my way around yellow was something that came about more recently, since I redid my palette and read a ton of info in 2020 for a few years.
Yellow bin, commuter train, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, March 2024
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