Colour my world

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This month Michelle, over at the GPP Street Team site, asked us to mix our own colours and name them. How could I resist?

As I’ve said before, when I get new paints I always play round with them in my journals, recording the new colour and mixing them quite randomly to see what happens. It’s amazing what you find. Yesterday I had some new Golden acrylics arrive in the courier: light violet, light turquoise (phthalo), light magenta, light ultramarine and Smalt hue. I love the Golden light paints; I find they’re much more intense and less chalky than mixing my own lights. I quite like some of these mixes. Three rows down in the centre on the right hand page is now officially called Mana Bay Blue after our local beach. Bottom right is a mix of Cadmium Red medium and Smalt Hue. This is now Vampire Blood because it has a slightly metallic look to it, it reminds me of all the vampire books my library customer’s read!

More experiments to come yet; I like to mix most or all of the new colours with each other, just to see what happens. Some of it will be ugly, some will be great…

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10 responses to “Colour my world”

July 23, 2011

michelle ward

Cath, love hearing that you went right to the page with these new arrivals! Fun to see the record of the true colors, then the evidence of your mixes. Hooray for naming the collection after your beach….hardly a beach day for you in the winter….meanwhile it was 105* here today! Love all the values you’ve concocted – especially Vampire Blood! Love seeing these kind of pages. Thanks for sharing with the team!

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July 23, 2011

TJ

Cath, you’re so lucky being able to order Golden Acrylics! I admit I’m always a tiny bit jealous because we dont have them in Germany. Looks like you had a lot of fun with them, I LOVE vampire blood too!! Wahh Hahh haahhh hahh!! (That was supposed to be a vampire laugh!)

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July 24, 2011

Regina

Thanks for your comment on my blog.
I like to make mixes of my new paint colors in a journal, too.
The Golden Acrylics are wonderful & so highly pigmented – yum. Your blue mixes are so cool!

I learned from one of their educators that you may want to mix modern pigments with each other and traditional pigments with each other. Modern and traditional blends can be done, but usually the mixes usually aren’t as satisfying.
Modern (manufactured) pigments would include the quinacridones, phthalos, etc. Traditional (earth) pigments are umbers, siennas, etc. If you are interested in learning more, you can check their web site.

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July 24, 2011

nuvofelt

We all know we should do this! I work with dyes, and try so hard to always do samples like this, but of course time is always an issue. So good to play and ‘break the rules’ too. I use my Goldens for printing onto fabric – they are a lovely addition.

Thanks so much for popping into my miniartworks blog and for leaving a comment. Much appreciated.

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July 25, 2011

aztecmichelle

Lots of lovely colours! Love the blues and reds. I love to hear about you experimenting with old and new paints; it’s encouraging to hear that we CAN experiment without worrying!

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July 27, 2011

Helen

Love your mixes and colors. Speaking about the libary: I am afraid books are having a hard time, but I am convinced they will survive.

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July 28, 2011

Lena

Great colours and your vampire blood is just right!

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July 28, 2011

Mona

Vampire blood …that one made me laugh (after all, I was born in Dracula’s country). Love your experiments, very well done.

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August 3, 2011

Lay Hoon

Impress with the new ….vampire blood.
Cool !

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August 9, 2011

Chris

Well, I think Vampire Blood is a big hit, and not only that, but I think seeing how you’ve laid these out and done stuff with them is groovy! Looking forward to your work on 54 !

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