Everyone Needs this Color!

'In the Mauve'           8x10        pastel        ©Karen Margulis
available $125

 You can tell from the photo. This has become one of my well loved go-to pastel sets. Everyone needs this set or at the very least these colors in your favorite pastel. The set is called Misty Mauves and they are Diane Townsend soft form pastels. I bought them on a whim and I find I use them all of the time.  Mauves isn't just an 80's thing....How many of you had mauve carpet?  :)
These mauves are a must! The mauves and light peachy pinks are perfect for landscape painting.

• They are perfect for the dirt or colors under grass.

• They are wonderful layered with greens in trees and shrubs. They add a bit of warmth and light and make the greens come alive.

• They are perfect for dried grasses. I love them for fall landscapes but even a green meadow had dried grass!

•  I love using them to build up the grays in the sky and clouds.

For today's painting I challenged myself to use this set for the majority of the scene. I used a few Terry Ludwig greens and blues and they worked perfectly together. Do you have these colors in your collection? What can you paint with them?

Diane Townsend Misty Mauves set of soft form pastels available at Dakota

The underpainting with misty mauves and blues

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