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Maggie's Corner:
bringing you simple ways to create the wonderful color you see all around you.
Written & Designed by Maggie McClellan exclusively for Joe Miller
www.maggiemcclellan.com copyright 2005
featuring American Journey Watercolors
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| Ever wonder what makes a painting special? Come on, we’re going on a journey of DISCOVERING the wonders of using fabulous companion colors. |
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 Analogous Colors |
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A deliciously warm (analogous) palette feels like you’re basking in the tropics or taking a walk down a country road, enjoying nature’s spendid fall colors. Sizzling, vibrant, stimulating...try it.
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A delightfully cool (analogous) palette. Now what does this palette feel like? Soft, cool shady place to take a nap, discovering a wonderfully chilly water hole hiding under the trees on a very hot day? Relaxing, peaceful, quiet. |
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 Complementary Colors |
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| Check it out!! Try this winning combination of colors. Keep changing the amount of color you mix (in) with any of the other colors. Mix two, three or four colors together, but keep an eye on equal quantity mixes unless you want to make browns, grays or blacks. Check out the samply mixtures below. This palette is beautiful! I discovered (then used in the painting) many surprises when I experiemented with how versatile I could be with my mixtures. Yeah! |
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| In these color mixes, I have taken the blue and mixed it with the yellow, then with the red, then with the alizarin. I then took the yellow and mixed it with the red, then the alizarin (I’ve already mixed it with the blue). The next step was to make mixes of the new colors: ie, mix the green created (when I mixed the blue and yellow) with the orange, the purple created with the yellow, the red and/or the blue. Get the idea? You keep making new colors from each successive mix until you are making browns and blacks. |
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| By mixing your colors right on your watercolor paper, you get all kinds of subtle intermediate mixes. It is oh so exciting to make colors this way - it’s what watercolor is ALL ABOUT! |
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