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Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor – Michael Solovyev’s Master Artist Set of 10 tubes, 5ml each.
At night, all the cats are grey
This is a great artist tip from Michael – in other words, to further develop your painting skills, focus on painting shadows. Painting bright light is rather easy, but shadows require an understanding of grays, or rather a mix of grays with different undertones like yellow, orange or red. Knowing your grays will help you complete paintings more quickly as well, which is especially good for plein air work.
Michael suggests trying this technique: Set up several objects for a study and create a palette of grays, use only three colors to create any one gray shade. For example, start with Quinacridone Sienna, Indigo, and Perylene Violet. By changing the balance of these three pigments, you can paint your shadows with a wide range of grays.
Experiment with your palette options in other ways, by mixing two colors from Michael’s set together, such as Indigo and India Yellow. This mix not only yields the perfect color for leaves, it can be altered to match any natural leaf color.
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