Limited Palette Portrait

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This is beautiful- very natural.

Posted by Janet Moloney on Fri 15 Jul 16:12:40

I really like this Gary

Posted by Russell Edwards on Fri 15 Jul 17:08:47

Fantastic and with such a limited colour palette. I also really like the brushwork and expression.

Posted by Heather Love on Fri 15 Jul 17:20:15

So well painted and amazing that it is just two colours.

Posted by David Williams on Fri 15 Jul 17:45:05

A beautiful portrait!

Posted by Spencer Lambeth-Angell on Fri 15 Jul 18:09:05

Amazing result with such a limited palette Gary. Love that hair.

Posted by Carole Kelly on Fri 15 Jul 18:18:31

Thank you all so much - its been lovely reading these comments :)

Posted by Gary Martin on Fri 15 Jul 20:28:42

Excellent

Posted by Neil Williamson on Sat 16 Jul 07:31:17

A beautiful lady and a beautiful portrait of her.

Posted by Paul (Dixie) Dean on Sat 16 Jul 07:44:27

Great portrait, Gary, and I can't help wondering who or what she's looking at so keenly. The limited palette has served you well, I'd say. Bri

Posted by Brian J Mackay on Sat 16 Jul 10:49:58

Beautiful portrait.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Sat 16 Jul 19:07:51

Wonderful portrait.

Posted by valerie harper on Mon 18 Jul 08:14:18

Excellent, fascinating limited palette too!

Posted by Jean Harris on Mon 18 Jul 10:31:11

I love this. It might inspire me to try painting with a limited palette.

Posted by Bobbie Matulja on Wed 20 Jul 11:19:30

Thanks again everyone. I'm finding limited palettes are a great way to get to know the pigments and what can be done with them - I plan to do lots more :-)

Posted by Gary Martin on Wed 20 Jul 21:09:33

Good experiment. I've long abandoned tube black, other than in my own experiments with the Zorn palette, and you might have a hard job convincing people you've not used in in this painting (Ha! You did, though!) : but the colours you did use will easily have produced the strongest yet liveliest blacks in this painting. I see you DID use black, but not straight? You modified it, I think?

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Tue 26 Jul 22:30:21

Hi Robert, Yes I did use black, but you are spot on in in your analysis. I never used straight black - I find it looks lacking compared to the rest of the painting so I always modify it with another colour to give it some depth (I think its from my graphic design background where we would add cyan or other colours to a black to make it strong!

Posted by Gary Martin on Wed 27 Jul 16:15:29

Fascinating to read about your selection of such limited colour Gary and a superb result. Love it!

Posted by Tessa Gwynne on Sat 30 Jul 10:27:52

Hang on Studio Wall

15/07/2022

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I wanted to test myself using just 2 colours and finishing in a day. This is using just Pthalo Green and Burnt Sienna (plus white and black). It was really interesting to discover just how much variation in colour can be achieved and I can take this into future work.

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Gary Martin

I am an Artist and Illustrator based in Cheshire. As a child I would spend hours with pencils, pens or brushes in my hands, lost in the creation of my latest drawing or painting. Many years later I discovered how wonderful art can be to calm the mind after caring for my terminally ill mother.…

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