Monday, August 23, 2010

Ruidiso Colors


This photo crop is a little bit off, but I think I'm finished with Ruidoso Colors. I started to go in with a really deep, dark background, but have sorta changed my mind...for right now. It's my custom to live with a painting for a few days before signing it...so there's always a window for change.


This is a quarter page, done with mostly AJ paints (cobalt, sap green, gamboge, perm red, DS perm rose, a touch here and there of thalo green and blue off of my Joyce Faulknor porcelain tray from her workshop that I just hate to wash away...so I haven't).

5 comments:

  1. Mollie, beautiful use of color here, very nice

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  2. I love the spoon and the cherries.

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  3. Mollie, this is gorgeous. I like the background that seems to reflect/repeat some of the bluish colors in the rest of the painting. The colors are amazing.

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  4. Thanks Krista, Mary, and Christiane. I was going for a really dark background, but after thinking about it, decided to go with the blues to tone down some of those reds. Glad you like it.

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  5. This is very clever, Mollie. I'm imprssed not only with the detail, but how you managed to keep your use of red varied even though it's such a dominant colour. Excellent execution, well done.

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