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Getting to Grips with Greens
A personal approach to creating harmonising greens within a landscape
all the years I have been teaching, mixing greens and creating a harmony within greens when painting landscapes seems to be one area many artists struggle with. My personal approach is not to use a standard green from a tube, but instead to mix all the greens for the landscape and greys for the sky using mainly one dominant blue. If, for example your sky is mainly Ultramarine Blue, I would mix greys for the clouds by adding a little Venetian Red and White to create a colour similar to Paynes Grey (but with interesting variations within the greys). Using the same Ultramarine Blue and a little Naples Yellow for distant hills, the same Ultramarine Blue and cool Lemon for distant fields, moving to the same Ultramarine Blue and a warmer Yellow, perhaps Cadmium Yellow Deep, for stronger, warmer tones nearer to the foreground. In this way the underlying Blue pins together all these colour mixes to create harmonious greens under a sky which also harmonises with the landscape beneath it. Give this a try sometimes and see if you agree
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