Horrible colors
The last few days I’ve been mixing colors. Although the technique didn’t seem to be very difficult the resulting colors where horrible.
After consulting my drawing book I concluded that the problem might be that the colors I used weren’t pure enough.
Pure colors
That presented something of a problem.
I have a 72 piece color pencil box that comes with something like 10 reds and 10 blue’s and 10 greens etc. Which one of those reds is the pure one? And how do I find out?
I solved the problem by buying a new color pencil box. This box has the 12 basic colors in the most pure form.
According the shopkeeper of the art suppley shop the quality of these pencils is such that you can put five layers of color on top of each other and still see the diffirence.
Drawing panic
Five layers of color sounds as though you can make a lot of different colors with it. It’s been a while since I had math but I think that means that I can make several thousands of colors with this pencil set.
Where to start?
For a while the sheer number of possibilities had me frightened. Then I remembered an advise that I gave a few weeks ago: One way of drawing abstract is just to draw what is right in front of you and extend the lines.
You’ll probably won’t recognize this but this drawing started out as the pillows on the chair I drew a few weeks ago.
Christening
Beautiful colors
I must say. These colors are truly beautiful. And these are only a fraction of the number of the number of colors that are possible.
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