Article · Stephen Berry Art
Building a Limited Palette
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2021
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.
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