Marine art: Painting a Sunset on Location

Want to have some fun painting?   Find a good spot to paint your sunset.   Get there about a half hour ahead of time.    Bring a   16×20 canvas or smaller.   Then load your palette with colors you would use in a sunset.  I usually use Cobalt Blue, Cereleun Blue, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Yellow, and Titanium [...]

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This post was written by gary odmark on February 26, 2010 Comments (2)

My Palette of colors from Odmark

  It is very important to develop the right palette. These colors will mix together nicely and help in creating the color you want. For the blues I use ultramarine, cobalt and cerulean. Greens: I use viridian Yellows:yellow ochre, Lemon Yellow, Hansa Yellow. reds alizarin crimson, Windsor red. Browns: iron red oxide, Burnt sienna, raw [...]

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This post was written by gary odmark on February 10, 2010 Comments (1)