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Recreating the Colour Palette of Helen Frankenthaler
By Emily Harman
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2023
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.
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