Pine Creek Afternoon

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Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on October 14, 2014 at 21:01

Thanks Ann.   I really do like this palette and will stick with it for awhile because I am enjoying getting more color in my landscapes.

Comment by Ann Turner on October 14, 2014 at 18:46

This palette is great ! The change in your painting style is beautiful.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on October 14, 2014 at 3:31

Silvana, Frank Serrano has been using this palette for at least 6 years.  He has one DVD out and is working on a second.   He uses this palette to paint seashores, mountains, Fall scenes, urban scenes.   The nice thing about it is that it is very easy to get color harmony with a palette like this.   It works especially well for plein air painting, because he uses a small pochade box with limited mixing area when he travels.  I really like this palette a lot and I am going to stick with it for now.

Comment by Silvana M Albano on October 14, 2014 at 3:24

Wow Stu! Thank you for such a detailed explanation!!

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on October 14, 2014 at 3:16

Silvana, I was using Gamblin's cad yellow light, but added a Michael Harding yellow lake deep (equivalent of cad yellow deep) to get the yellow orange colors in the aspens.   The instructor told us that a cad yellow medium in Gamblin's paints plus some alizarin crimson would be OK.   He uses a limited palette with only 3 primaries: warm blue (ultramarine blue), cool red (alizarin crimson), neutral yellow (cad yellow medium) plus 2 earth colors (yellow ochre and burnt sienna) and thalo green.   These last 3 colors are for mixing mainly.  When he paints end of day scenes or early morning sunrises he adds in cad red light and cad orange.   He uses titanium white for his white and linseed oil for his medium.     Pretty simple palette.

Comment by Silvana M Albano on October 14, 2014 at 2:49

This is very nice Stu! Which yelow did you use?