i bought a few more paints
and while i was not intending to
i am so very happy and excited about my choices
that i want to share them with you
so, to recap:
azo yellow
quinacridone gold
pyrrot red
quinacridone fushcia
anthroquinone blue
manganese blue nova
sodalite genuine
holbein umber
i mentioned the transparent red oxide before, well i went looking for a video about rose dore madder lake because i had seen it when i was looking at rose madders and it looked enigmatic, which i think it is. sennelier is supposedly known for their reds and they had a french vermillion that i decided i didn't like as much as the schmincke vermillion light, which, as it turns out, is not really light fast so it had to be abandoned. and i found a "sampler" pack of daniel smith paints with six of the primatek paints in-- piemonite (which i had previously spotted as being something i wanted), rodecrosite, mayan blue, amethyst, jadeite, and hemitite (which i don't really want, but maybe i could give it to my mother).
the jadeite is more of a veridian/forest green than the apatite (but i think it will be easier to paint with).
they are in small tubes, but they are also a deal for being a set, and then i can see how they work. and the amethyst (maybe) lets me spit my violets with the fushsia being the warm and the amethyst being the cool (although it isn't really all that cool for a violet and it has sparkles which i'm not sure whether i like or not)-- it is really beautiful. the mayan blue is super beautiful. the rodecrosite is too. i feel like i'm really blue heavy but the sodalite is a black substitute.
so, i was going to do six (which none of us ever believed) and i ended up with fifteen-- but five of them are on a trial and won't stay if they aren't great. the palette i got holds eighteen colors, soi have space for three more. it was the right price and configuration. i didn't buy a much bigger palette than i needed just to have an excuse toget more colors. i didn't want a tiny one. i wanted one with mixing room.
i'm pretty chuffed!
i cannot wait to paint.
i realize that most people probably do not take that long to pick out their paints
but
i think you know by now
that's how i am
picking the colors
was an incredibly important and enjoyable part of the process
that i did poorly last time and so didn't really enjoy it
i didn't get much sleep
i got up for that thing,just in case you were there
i came in late
heard your thing and then didn't hear the rest of it
i thought that getting three hours of sleep
would mean
that i would got to bed earlier
but
it's already after seven
so i guess not
