TIP: Track your color notes
2009 June 2
This tip comes with a V-8 style smack to the forehead. I saw Cindy do this during her roses workshop and just used it today…. OK, prepare yourself for the soul-lifting insight I’m about to lay on you. Ready?
When premixing, use a marker to label the piles.
I know! It’s pure genius! See, I premix to “notes”; e.g. pick representative areas of the subject matter that fall into the dark-dark, middle dark, reflected light, transition, dark light (oh you get the picture), etc. But sometimes, the subsurface scattering note and the cast shadow in middle light note can be pretty close. Enter: the Sharpie marker which writes well on the freezer paper I use for a palette. Labelled the piles. Sweet.
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heh heh. you said subsurface scattering…
I do the same thing on my glass palette. The ink has dimension to it, so you can scrape it off with a widget (razor) when you scrape the paint piles off the glass. Anything that is left behind cleans off with OMS or turps.
actually i said “thubthurfath thcattering” but my lisp-to-english spellchecker is working pretty well these dayth.
matt i have no excuse for why it took so long to figure this out. probably it’s pure laziness on my part… have to roll all the way over there to get the sharpie….
good point - thanks for bringing it up - would work on glass and acrylic palettes too.
“thubthurfath thcattering”
LOL.
Here’s another one I figured out the other day. You’re gonna love this.
Beside each premixed pile - with the tip of your knife, dab a bit of each color that you used to make up that mixture.
Ooooh - doesn’t that just give you the shivers?
That is awesome!
Great ideas, I’ll begin to use them Thursday! Thanks