Fibermania

Five Red and One Black Plum

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Five Red and One Black Plum

oil on gallery wrapped canvas

12x6x1" Sold

While I don't usually talk much about technique I have to say that I learned something about paint while painting these last two paintings. There are several reds in my palette. All but Cadmium Red seem to be pretty transparent. They look dark when squeezed out of the tube but when applied to the canvas they are not so dark. So even by adding a darker color like purple, they remain transparent. Grr.

I know this is sideways, but click it and it shows the details well

So I decided to try using the cadmium, even tho it was the 'wrong' red. I mean it was too orange. I was hoping the alizarin crimson would work as it seemed to have the right pinkiness to it. And instead of using purple to darken my cadmium, I used pthalo blue! This is a way green blue and one would think it would make mud with the cadmium, but obviously it worked. For the black plum I used the pthalo again, warmed up with a touch of cadmium. It doesn't look a bit green does it?

This is painting #84 on the road to 500.