These are a Few of My Favorite Things!

Secret Ingredients, and how to use them!

When I paint, in Oil, Watercolor, or In the Kitchen (cooking)... 
then I often use a line to design, sketch or do some underpainting.




Many times a tone of yellow, 
mixed with some white and a bit of is used to sketch and block in some shapes and tone the background.


A brighter tone mixed with orange?


Or a very thin tone with less pigment, knowing it will be toned to blues and greens?

 


Yellow Ochre

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