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Recreating the Colour Palette of Helen Frankenthaler

By Emily Harman

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2023
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About this lesson

Works out three Frankenthaler palettes from different periods with named pigments, swatched both on oil paper and on raw canvas to show how absorbency changes the colour. Explains her turpentine-thinned soak-stain method alongside analysis of three paintings.