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Friday, April 15, 2022

A Primary Spin with Neocolors

4/11/22 Green Lake neighborhood

The morning was chilly, breezy and gray. Grabbing a CMYK primary triad, I decided to take some non-soluble Caran d’Ache Neocolors out for a spin. Rounding a bend in the Green Lake neighborhood, a row of colorful trees suddenly came into view. Although it was a good opportunity to push myself out of my “realistic” color zone, these trees aren’t colored as crazily as it might seem: Dark reddish-purple plums stood between some bright yellow-green trees.

The wind was so strong that I stayed in my car again. A limited palette with a limited view: I don’t mind restrictions when I get to choose what they are.

5 comments:

  1. Great colors and I'm sure they are pretty close to the spring colors now. I like how you sort of framed the scene between the cars.

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  2. Neocolors II, got me started with Caran D'Ache! The love affair has simply grown -- and I have been a painter with oils and acrylics for many decades! Portability and almost no clean-up --seduced me! Freedom from mediums and smeary brushed! So colored pencils and crayons are part of my 'vocabulary' that is threatening to become addictive!! I read all your reviews not, Tina, you do an excellent job of keeping your readers up to date! I like the way you tell it like you see it. your Blog is also now one of my addictions! Thank you!

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    1. Happy to hear you are enjoying the blog and find the reviews useful!

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  3. You can see some of my drawings in the Blog site: Mom's Madisonotes. I have posted my drawings there very infrequently and anything in color is done with Caran d'Ache NeocolorII and the various wonderful colored pencils by Caran d"Ache!

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