Once again the palette was pretty gloopy especially after doing some night paintings the other evening. I did the outline with heavy, dark blue (PB60) brush strokes, then filled in the colours around the spectrum. I've been trying to finish off a few tubes of paint including Deep Scarlet by Daniel Smith (PR175), it is essentially maroon or dark red. Although it looks a bit brighter, it appears to be nearly identical to perylene maroon (PR179) in mixes, so for some reason I prefer perylene maroon. Both paints have excellent lightfastness ratings, meaning they wont fade in the sun, and they are somewhat similar to the discontinued alizarin crimson (PR83) which faded a lot in the light. I mostly use the colour (PR175 or PR179) to make neutral blue/violet grey when mixed with yellow ochre (PY43) and indo blue (PB60). Its also good for red shadows by mixing with pyrol red (PR254), and it can neutralize green (PG7 or PG36) to create dark green or caramel brown colours. Its been awhile since I did a blog with a bunch of letters and numbers in parenthesis...kind of looks like a scientific manuscript!
More Code, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, September 2024
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