The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god.
And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier.
Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around
As though with your arms open.”
by Mary Oliver
On my chart I list the manufacturer as well. Then I get the chart laminated a Staples so that it will hold up and not fall apart if it gets wet. I abbreviate the manufacturer names as follows:
Daniel Smith = DS
Winsor Newton = WN
Sennelier = Senn.
Holbein = HB
Schmincke = Schmin.
I hope you can read the chart that I made shown in these photos.
I write the name of the color and the manufacturer of the paint on the back side of the paper. Then I wet the front of the paper and paint it. I try to have lay the color on thick and thin to see how dark it can get. When it is dry I write the name of the paint on the front of the paper.
When I decide on a color, I start to lay the tubes of paint around my palette to see where they will go.
Starting with the color yellow, I took a look at all the tubes of paint I own. I have a lot of tubes of paint!!!
I want a well rounded representation from cool yellows to warmer yellows. To best see the colors, I painted little samples on watercolor paper. Then I organized them according to the color wheel.
It has room for 40 colors! Yippee!!!
Now the fun part is to decide which colors will go where. I always use a color wheel to figure out where to put my colors.
The first thing to do is to pull out the tubes of color that I want to add to my new palette. This will take some time and careful thought.
Jeannine Stein blogged about it at the Cloth, Paper, Scissors blog.
Here is a little of what she had to say:
In the article “Black-and-White Journal Pages” in the same issue of Pages, Jacqueline Newbold has a fantastic technique for prepping art journal pages and turning them into paper art. Start by painting a watercolor border on all sides of the paper. The beauty of this technique is that even if you’re not that familiar with watercolor, you really can’t go wrong. I sprinkled table salt on some areas of the wet paint to get a textured effect.
