Friday, December 2, 2016

Landscape colors....have you ever wonder?

Choosing your colors for landscape paintings

According to the M. Graham & Company,  Landscape tone watercolors can take many forms in choices of colors.   A plain air artist's or photo realism  artist can have  a variety choices. To help with choices, one can use  five colors includes:  for a  Sky (Cerulean Blue),  for Foliage  that is Green (Sap Green or hooker greenmixed with a little white or blue as needed), Tree Bark  (Burnt Umber or mixed  blue and orangeorange), Afternoon Shadow (Purple.mixd black a little white) and Sunrise use Yellow (Yellow Ochre).  These colors are  Intense and alive with strength no matter what watercolor set you use.

Reference: google images.. search landscapes