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Ruthy flet

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Just got my leisure painters mag...........been looking throught the back section , as was just wondering about doing a cources online has anyone out there got any advice or recomendation...........?????? :-D
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Alan Owen uses Burnt Umber quite a bit - I went for a long time without using it at all, but have recently come back to it (largely inspired by Alan).  It carries a good amount of yellow - it's an orange, basically, when well-made; so if you mix it with a green inclining blue like Prussian or Pthalo or Cerulean, you get a deep green; mix it with ultramarine and you get a very serviceable black.  Used neat, it works much better in watercolour than it tends to with oil - in which beginner painters tend to use it to paint their tree-trunks; mixed with a blue, say, it can be perfect for that, but on its own it does give that very characteristic beginners' look.  
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Michael Edwards

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It's one of the staple colours - well certainly in my palette. Mix with raw sienna for raw umber.Various mixes with raw sienna and a touch of ultramarine here and there for weathered stone, church spires etc. With ultramarine for darks in foliage etc and more ultramarine for black. With certain blues for dark green.
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Michael Edwards

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You may want to look at this page here on POL: http://www.painters-online.co.uk/Features/How-to-Mix-Colours-for-Your-Watercolour-Painting-Using-Burnt-Umber/_ft248

Syd Edward

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thanks to Robert and Mike.I feel alot better for having Burnt Umberin my box of coloursoils watercplours and acrylics. addraw sienna to burnt umber gives you raw umber ....thats new to me Mike, willtry it for my next tree trunks. this post suffers from word collisions.....maybe if that blank space said SPACE it would be better, maybe not? Syd. :-) :-)