I like yellow ochre to mix greens, the box colours are always too pure. Yellow ochre in the green, or in some blue. Mix them all together. And I like to remember how my art teacher, and my grandmother, always told me to never use black. A bad artist uses black. It makes me smile when I look at my palette and the blacks all worn out. My pilea is flowering too and I suppose it’s stress and I suppose I should water it, or cu the flowers off because they sap energy, but that’s too rude, and I like to appreciate all the flowers 🌸
Thank you for your comments Deb - much appreciated. Oh the don't use black league - I think comes from watercolour painters mostly. Well, look at how much black is used by Degas, for example, and I wonder what people are are on about but at the same time understand. A straight jet black is very black, but a mixed black more nuanced. I get it, I mix it, but I love my jet black too.... I think it is good to appreciate these different events in plant, so long as they do not show too much outward suffering:)
I really enjoy reading your notes Cathy. Thank you for sharing your lovely stories and notes on the mixing of colours and other things about your processes. I particularly adore your books you create. The not-overworked brush strokes, the chalky gouache textures on crinkly recycled papers, the snippets of this and that pasted in… they’re just so lovely. 💛
Thank you so much Hollie. I am very pleased to know - I love these things too and am just so grateful that others share my fascination for textures and collage etc...
I enter a reverie when I read your words, a dreamy place where art and life are one and the same. It is how I want to live, where mixing colors gives a nod to place and time and memory informs the senses. I could read volumes of these transporting stories, feeling the moments you describe with a deep knowing that these are the moments that define a life well lived.
Thank you so much always Janet, your comments mean a great deal to me. I hope you continue to enjoy your own creative journeys and experimenting - I say journeys as I think we take many twisting and turning routes - always open to new ideas
Cathy, I am delighted to see this beautiful creation and tried to write a comment, and subscribe. technology befuddles me, and I can’t seem to get it. i promise to keep trying. But oh how glorious your words and thoughts are, so lovely as accompaniment to your artwork. Such a gift you have. I wish we didn’t have an ocean between us! xo
I really enjoyed your notes Cathy. It's vey interesting to read about how you mix your colours and obtain such lovely shades, especially of green. Your books and paintings are beautiful too. Thank you.
For whatever reason, your connections to the greens you mix and the Grantchester story, brought tears to my eyes. I felt a deep something stir. Both the tears and the stirring quite unfamiliar to me and yet pleasant - thank you. I appreciate the care your words and colors carry across time and space😍
I like yellow ochre to mix greens, the box colours are always too pure. Yellow ochre in the green, or in some blue. Mix them all together. And I like to remember how my art teacher, and my grandmother, always told me to never use black. A bad artist uses black. It makes me smile when I look at my palette and the blacks all worn out. My pilea is flowering too and I suppose it’s stress and I suppose I should water it, or cu the flowers off because they sap energy, but that’s too rude, and I like to appreciate all the flowers 🌸
Thank you for your comments Deb - much appreciated. Oh the don't use black league - I think comes from watercolour painters mostly. Well, look at how much black is used by Degas, for example, and I wonder what people are are on about but at the same time understand. A straight jet black is very black, but a mixed black more nuanced. I get it, I mix it, but I love my jet black too.... I think it is good to appreciate these different events in plant, so long as they do not show too much outward suffering:)
I really enjoy reading your notes Cathy. Thank you for sharing your lovely stories and notes on the mixing of colours and other things about your processes. I particularly adore your books you create. The not-overworked brush strokes, the chalky gouache textures on crinkly recycled papers, the snippets of this and that pasted in… they’re just so lovely. 💛
Thank you so much Hollie. I am very pleased to know - I love these things too and am just so grateful that others share my fascination for textures and collage etc...
I enter a reverie when I read your words, a dreamy place where art and life are one and the same. It is how I want to live, where mixing colors gives a nod to place and time and memory informs the senses. I could read volumes of these transporting stories, feeling the moments you describe with a deep knowing that these are the moments that define a life well lived.
Thank you so much always Janet, your comments mean a great deal to me. I hope you continue to enjoy your own creative journeys and experimenting - I say journeys as I think we take many twisting and turning routes - always open to new ideas
I’m intrigued about the sugar bowl. Could someone be sleepwalking?
Thank you Veronica - it is possible!
Cathy, I am delighted to see this beautiful creation and tried to write a comment, and subscribe. technology befuddles me, and I can’t seem to get it. i promise to keep trying. But oh how glorious your words and thoughts are, so lovely as accompaniment to your artwork. Such a gift you have. I wish we didn’t have an ocean between us! xo
Thank you Nina, I do hope you will enjoy reading here and thanks so much, always, for your support! Would love to meet up too x
I really enjoyed your notes Cathy. It's vey interesting to read about how you mix your colours and obtain such lovely shades, especially of green. Your books and paintings are beautiful too. Thank you.
many thanks Hazel, I am so pleased to know, much appreciated!
For whatever reason, your connections to the greens you mix and the Grantchester story, brought tears to my eyes. I felt a deep something stir. Both the tears and the stirring quite unfamiliar to me and yet pleasant - thank you. I appreciate the care your words and colors carry across time and space😍
many thanks for reading Cindy and for your thoughtful response - so very much appreciated