Strawberries in magenta, yellow and black by Amanda Bates

It's interesting Amanda to see the colours you can mix from this unlikely combination. I particularly like the metal bowl and the strawberries look good enough to eat!

How extraordinary that the oils result in such a different colour mix. The three look good together in oils whereas watercolours looked a little acidic to me. I can barely see the magenta here, you've achieved red which didn't work for me. Interesting that you mention yellow as I thought the same. I used cadmium. Different yellows can make such a difference. Thank you for showing the result! Lovely shine on those strawberries as well!

Thank you both. (It's still acrylic, Louise - just used in a style similar to "alla prima" oil - no glazing worthy of mention). I think the white makes a big difference - it's far more cooling (and so more blue) than allowing the white support to be seen through thinned paint.

I was rushing out and looked too quickly Amanda! I'd compared it to Christine's watercolour style acrylic. Still a very different effect though.

Grouping the MYK paintings... http://www.painters-online.co.uk/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=4767

A lovely piece. I really like the palette and the brushwork.

Quite clever to achieve these colours using only the colours you mentioned at the outset. I know I couldn't do it. Colour mixing is always a problem for me. I can never quite get the actual colour I visualize in my head so I have to rely on the 'happy accident' actually being a 'happy' one!!!

To be honest, Jean, under artificial light it looked less satisfactory (and I'm not sure that the scan does it full justice either - daylit photo here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zalamanda/14905392821/ ).