Green
- Jun 11
- 1 min read
A brief discussion on green. As a challenge and because its spring here and everything is VERY green I though I would try and a paint a picture all in green, of you know the green fields and green trees. The challenge is to make something that is pleasant to look at and doesn't make you want to fall asleep.
I have had this discussion before, in that painters will do a lot of things to actually avoid painting in green- blue and yellows being far more versatile and dyanmic.
I've got windsor green, Chromium oxide green, brilliant, Permanant Green,phtalo green and permanant dark green (probably all very blue, and need of a bit of acidity).... I really tried. But other than feeling like I was looking at a blob of green in the rain, the sleep factor crawls in. Perhaps, we cannot process this much green because we don't have a name for each green? (perhaps the composition is super boring - I'm working on that!) Maybe my greens are all too blue (yes I did add some white and yellow -but they're still 'green')
Anyway - I am now addiing a little orange (Chromium yellow hue, and a bit more blue and yellow as blue and yellow... I have no idea if it will rescue me from the dull as swampy ditchwater.... but you never know, I will hold out as long as possible on the reds.
