Painting 33

The color violet
Wheather used right from the tuve or mixed from reds and blues, violet can act as the star of a painting, helping set the mood or add life to shadows;
It´s helpful to make a page of color samples , showing every combination of blue and red to produce violet; .- it´s amazing how different  each combination can be
For the very darkest I use alizarin crimson ultramarine blue and a touch of burnt sienna making a very rich black, that I can vary more to the blue, red, or Brown as needed I also used violet to shadow yellow objects
For the following excersize; I combine with black "?" for contrast because I wanted to highlight wáter white tone insted to graduate but this is because I tried to create interes references,

                                                     Ref PO651

        Acrylic over canvas - impasto colored and texturized and then used as
        undepainted base
               "SHADOWS, SOUNDS AND HAPPY THOUGHTS"