Mixing a few colors to find the colors I need to draw a tree.
After discovering that drawing in detail probably will work better when you use pencil I wanted to try to draw an other abstract tree. But I soon realized that I didn’t know how to create the colors I would need.
So instead I experimented a little with colors.
The strange thing is that mixing colors with pencils isn’t as much as chemistry as I had expected. When you mix colors using paint you can to a certain extend predict what colors you will get. But with pencil the it doesn’t seem to work.
With paint if you mix a little bit of yellow with a lot of blue you get a dark green. With pencil it all depends. If you start with blue and put yellow on top you get dark green. But when you start with yellow and put blue on top you get blue. Not entirely the same hue blue as you had, but still blue.
When you mix three colors it really becomes complicated. Much more alchemy then chemistry.
But by far the strangest thing is that I found that I need blue both to create an interesting green and to create an interesting brown color. That means that the next drawing will be a something of a blue tree.
Well not really blue. But I’ll have to use a lot of bleu.
Squared
The other interesting thing about this study is that I don’t have any of the colors you see in my pencil box. Every color (except one) is a mix of at least two other colors. Although for some I mixed five colors including using a white blending pencil.
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