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White and Black

6/20/2020

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In the course of a week of art classes (now being done on Zoom) there is one rule that comes up over and over.  When I ask the question, "What are you using?" and the answer is Black or White, straight out of the tube, singly or together - I must repeat the mantra below:
Tubed White is not a color!!!  Tubed Black is not a color!!!!  Therefore, Tubed Black and Tubed White used together are NOT colors.  Zero plus Zero does not equal One.
Now, before someone decides to get offended by this - the white and black that companies manufacture, across the board, are flat and dead unless color is added to them.  Any of the darker colors added together make gorgeous, living blacks.  And yes, black can be added then to darken if necessary.  Likewise, just a tinge of color added to White makes a rainbow of lights and grays.
I can see this from across the room!  The black and/or white stand out as flat, empty and dead!  In nature, black is filled with color!!!  White is filled with color.  
Until I studied with Helen Van Wyk, I was taught never, ever use Tubed Black because the Black would overpower any color it was mixed with.  This is true of Mars Black and Lamp Black - they are opaque and muffle any color mixed with them - hence they are not on my legal list of colors.  Ivory Black, on the other hand, is transparent and makes a million galaxies of gray.  Beautiful gray, another dimension to our palette of colors.
I use Zinc white - mostly because Helen Van Wyk used it but I find it warmer than Titanium White.  And, because our whole earth is warmed by the sun, I go with the warmer white.  


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June 20th, 2020 - Paint Colors

6/20/2020

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​My last and most beloved teacher was Helen Van Wyk.  After years of taking classes in drawing and painting, Helen provided all the basic answers that would have been such a help when I started.  So - here is Helen's color list, my Bible when it comes to color:

Basic Palette
Zinc White 

Warm Colors
Yellows
Cadmium Yellow Light
Yellow Ochre
Burnt Umber

Oranges
Cadmium Orange
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna

Reds
Cadmium Red Light
Grumbacher Red
Venetian (also Lite or Terra Rosa) Red
Indian Red

Cool Colors
Alizarin Crimson
Thalo Green
Thalo Blue

Ivory Black

Extra Colors
Sap Green
Manganese Violet
Dioxazine Purple
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Cadmium Yellow Dark
Thalo Red Rose
Thalo Yellow Green

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    I am a writer, an artist, adult art instructor, singer, dancer, creative person, arthritic and moderately crazy.

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