Painting 33

BLACK COLOR; comments

I´d rather the tonal contrast; making the darks lean, either toward cool or warm, which puts a lot more life into the work.
Alizarim crimson, quinacridone gold and french ultramarine, mixed in different proportions, produce either a warm, neutral or cool black
The black when feel transparent and appears to recede, it´s when I liked most
The addition of few spots of ultramarine or alizarin to a previous mix, even can make the difference.

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Watercolor with acrylic mixed excercise; ref.CO620
There are three fundamental values; dark middle and ligth, the highest values needs to be the paper, I start painting the darkest first to will give me the confidence to use stronger middle value colors, rather tan painting several tentative layers of pigments.
I was trying to integrate rather tan isolate so I kept the paint flowing
After watercolor addition, I emphasize with acrylic to give the stronger middle value I wanted, ----adding even white color to add some flowing texture

                                             Ref. CO620