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Swatching

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Zorn Palette

In this month's main post I introduced one of my favorite limited palettes: the Zorn Palette, which is made of a bright warm red (often cadmium red, but I'm using pyrrol red here), yellow ochre and black. You can click here if you want to read a bit on its

Try It: Water Control

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Try It: Water Control

So much of water control is a hand feel, a sense that develops with lots of experience, where we know how much we can ask of our paint and when to sit back and trust it to do its thing. Here are four swatching exercises I'd recommend to get more

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Swatching Oils

Today's post is a quick one. I want to show you some swatching I've done recently as I've been trying out some new paints. I started on a set of large commissions last year and was several weeks of work into it when the client and I realized I had