Blog Archives - Ricky Colson

Mixing Corresponding Whites

Georges Seurat: The primaries in order and their individual whites.

I’ve gone through a few palettes. I’m currently using a handheld wooden palette from a plein air set similar to this one. I have to clean it everyday or risk ruining it with dried up paint. I previously used a large piece of glass […]

Ricky2014-08-13T10:14:35-06:00June 29th, 2010|Blog|0 Comments

Lopsided

When there is no room to move your easel, sometimes your entire painting has to shift. I thought my easel might tip over while I worked on the edge of my new painting. Maybe I should have stuck to small canvases?

Ricky2014-08-13T10:15:44-06:00June 28th, 2010|Blog|0 Comments

Cliffhangers Drawing

I thought I should follow up the last post with the preliminary drawing. The warm toned paper helped with visualizing the colors of the final painting.