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Using the Zorn palette for the first time
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I do like crimson glow Marjorie. The pinkness seems to portray innocence and youth. I have tried the Zorn palette and thought it was quite successful, giving many different mixes. However for my recent Indian chiefs, I used burnt Sienna, white and black to model the faces in a warm grisaille approach. This gave a close approximation to the skin tone, bit I gave them an orange glaze with a bit of aliz here and there.
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I think your skin tones worked very well, Linda. I think that a restricted palette ( eg Zorn)works well with anything, it teaches you how to mix a colour and it brings harmony to a painting. But there are no hard and fast rules, you can add or substitute what you want - the restricted palette gives you a foundation. When I think of all the unnecessary colours I bought when I started out!!
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Just catching up with this thread, after seeing the portraits posted in the gallery. Curiosity, got the better of me, the Zorn pallet, only four colours, of which I have W&N oils lamp black, crimson red, orche yellow , Titanium white. I decided to explore. N
o reference photo, just a guess at a portrait. Ha ha, lovely experience with the mixing, the lamp black turned the eyes blue. Ok I don't do portraits, but this is a good pallette for such ventures, I may explore a lot deeper. Later.. your portrait are all fab.
o reference photo, just a guess at a portrait. Ha ha, lovely experience with the mixing, the lamp black turned the eyes blue. Ok I don't do portraits, but this is a good pallette for such ventures, I may explore a lot deeper. Later.. your portrait are all fab. 