Before I start talking art, a bit of news. I retired on Tuesday. Eighteen months…
Coloured Pencil Full Swatch
It’s all go at the moment. We’ve got someone coming in on Tuesday to replace all the doors and windows in the house, which means not much time for painting for a while. So I might be using coloured pencils over the next week as I don’t mind taking overnight breaks from painting when I’m using that medium.
I’ve completed a coloured pencil painting over the weekend but, before we come to that, I thought I’d better update my coloured pencil swatching now that I have 60 colours to choose from rather than just the 36 that I started with.
And here’s my swatching sheet with three different pigment levels for each colour. This sheet will be much more useful for making colour choices than just looking at the colour of the barrel. Take a look at that walnut brown if you don’t believe me – much closer to black than I was expecting.
I guess you could look through this page and identify colours that are so close together that one of them could be replaced with something else. Raw umber, second from bottom of the middle column, for example, looks very close to the colours above and below it. But, you know, I’m happy with these 60 colours. With that many pencils you’re always going to get close matches. I’m stick8 g with this squad and not planning on making any substitutions.
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