Painting "Jewel Tones 2" - REWIND

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Painting "Jewel Tones 2" - REWIND

This painting video was originally posted back in early 2016. This version is a updated with new music and and some new graphics. The original video has more than 90,000 views, which is really good for one of my videos.

I always loved painting this piece and I enjoyed it in the studio until it sold. There was lots of intuitive paint splashing and working directly from the paint containers with very little mixing of color on the palette. The color combo is a primary triad of yellow, red and blue with red as the dominant color, yellow as the accent color and blue as the non-dominant color. There is some violet and orange added in too, but not enough to distract from the main triad.

I was using about half Golden Heavy Body Paint and about half Nova Color Paint at the time, just prior to my switch over to Golden Paint exclusively. I have listed colors from both manufacturers below.

I am working on a 48x48 Gallery Wrapped Canvas covered with gesso. The Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Colors used are:

  • Light Violet

  • Quinacridone Magenta

  • Dioxazine Purple

  • Blue-Violet (custom mixture)

  • Titanium White

The Nova Color Paint colors used:

  • Hansa Yellow Light

  • Indian Yellow

  • Organic Pyrrole Orange

  • Fluorescent Pink

  • Fluorescent Magenta

  • Phthalo Turquoise

As with most of my paintings there was no pre-planning of anything other than the color combination. I like to paint intuitively so that I can be as spontaneous as possible when I stand before the canvas. All I knew was I wanted it to be a very warm painting.

I start with Quinacridone Magenta with a bit of Dioxazine Purple added to darken it enough to create a dark value for the painting. I add some orange to warm up the cool reds. I continue adding middle value color in both warm and cool varieties. I leave little white space to place my main yellow accent. I first put in the Indian Yellow, followed by Hansa Light mixed with Titanium White.

The remainder of the time was spent adding color variety, working the edges of my shapes and splashing on some paint for added visual interest and paint thickness.

It was one of the most fun paintings I’ve done. It’s nice to revisit it to remind myself of the experience. I hope in some way it is helpful for you and your art journey.

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David

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