The Painting of Indigo Dreaming 3
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Woo-Hoo, back with another video.
First I want to say thank you so much to all of you who took time to welcome me back! I received hundreds of messages, emails, comments and notes from social media. It makes a fella feel good to know he was missed.
In this video I am utilizing Indigo again as the main color of the painting. This time however, I am adding some cooler colors and a complementary color (just for those who didn’t like me using a monochromatic color scheme). Here are the colors I used (All Golden Heavy Body Acrylics): Titanium White, Buff Titanium, Burnt Sienna, Teal, Anthraquinone Blue, Mars Balck, Minty G (which is my own custom mix). Keep in mind that what I am calling Indigo is a mix of Anthraquinone Blue and Mars Black. The black helps take the edge off the intensity and cools it just a bit to make a nice Indigo Blue.
I start the painting on a 36x36 gessoed canvas by making some loose scribbles with a Marabu Art Crayon in colors. I then start laying in a bit of Titanium White, then go in big with the Indigo. I add some cool Teal and Minty G, mixing everything together to create subtle color variations and so that my shapes bleed into each other so the eye can move through the painting effortlessly. I add the Burnt Sienna mixed with Titanium White for the accent center of interest. Note that I blend most of this out into the painting, mixing it with the Indigo for a nice, muted neutral color that forms most of the lower left part of the painting.
The rest of the painting is really just additions of Buff Titanium and Titanium White that are quickly added and blended in to create light value, neutrals. The Buff Titanium adds a warm touch which is a lighter value echo of the Burnt Sienna accent.
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