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Building a Limited Palette

By Stephen Berry

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2021
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About this lesson

Walks through choosing a five-pigment plein-air palette around a subject's needs, using mixing swatches to test which pigments cleanly reproduce required hues, and pairing a cool yellow with ultramarine blue for cleaner, more intense greens than a warm yellow allows.