New Color

One of the pleasures of painting is discovering a new and useful color. A few years ago I found that cadmium yellow deep was excellent with white and a red for light skin tones.

Now another cadmium, cad green, has proved useful for what I find are the particularly tricky greens. In particular, it makes a nice bright sun struck grass when mixed with light cad yellow. The downside is that its unmixed emerald has a tendency to be overly bright and strident. But greens are always hard.