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| 'Fairyland' 8x10 pastel ©Karen Margulis available $125 |
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| Terry Ludwig 90 piece set of greens |
Looking back now I realize that I just wasn't ready for all of those greens. I wouldn't have known what to do with them. I didn't understand warm and cool and neutrals. Green was green. I was happy with just a few. I have learned so much in the last 11 years of painting. A few years ago I treated myself to the 90 piece set and I haven't regretted it for a minute!(and wish I had gotten them sooner)
Instead of being overwhelmed by all of the green choices....I have actually learned more about using greens. By comparing one green to another and using them in a painting I started to see the difference. Not all greens were the same and I could see the subtleties. Having the 90 piece set and keeping them separate from my other pastels has taught me how to use green more effectively. I didn't know how much I really needed them!
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| Reusing a failed painting for today's green forest painting |
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1 comment:
I keep having mixed feelings about this set. The idea of 90 greens is wonderful and I love the diverse values, but some of them look like oranges, browns and blues to me. I use a slightly different color system and need to have pure chroma greens for mixing and scumbling, while even the brightest Terry Ludwig greens are a bit muted. If I want to knock back a red with it and get the zing of pure chroma in the scumble, a brownish-green isn't going to do it.
They are nonetheless tempting. The pictures are sometimes a bit confusing too. It might help if I could see them in person. I'd probably get the full set - but I'd also find it easier to pick out favorites when I trim an assortment down to a 12 color wheel and tints and shades. I think of muted colors as extras, convenience colors with the exception of a mid value gray-violet that turned up in my first set of Rembrandts and rapidly became essential to every subject. Sometimes you don't know what colors are important until you've used them!
But that set has always been an expensive, supreme temptation. So are the 30 color Blues and the whole 60 color Vibrants set!
Some of this is inspiration, the saturated hues are what inspire me no matter how much I'll mute them by the time I'm done.
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