"Open"

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"Tranquility at Canyon Lake"

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"Texas Sky"
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I took a photo of this scene on the way back from the lake a couple of weeks ago. The picture washed out alot of the sky so I used a different picture of the sky taken on the same day at the lake. I'm really happy with how it turned out. It's larger than my normal pieces, this one is 8"x10".

"Field of Poppies"
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I am loving this limited palette! It makes the whole process so much less complicated and I think my paintings look better.

"Meadow Blooms"
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"Hillside Path"
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This is another painting done with a limited palette of Cadmium Yellow Pale, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue and Titanium White.

"Field of Flowers"
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I'm reading Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color by Kevin D. Macpherson. He suggests limiting your palette to Cadmium Yellow Pale, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Winsor Green and Titanium White. That's what I used for this painting with the addition of a little Cerulean Blue and no Winsor Green (I didn't have any).

I've also been doing some of the color mixing exercises he suggests. I thought using so much white would make the colors washed out but it was a really useful exercise. I sometimes have a tendency to use too much saturated color with out any grayer tones to make any one color stand out. These show varying mixtures of Cadmium Yellow Pale, Alizarin Crimson and Ultramarine Blue. Each combination was reduced with white five times making lighter and lighter variations of the original mixture.