Feb 29

Happy Valentine Month

The Tuesday group at Creighton's create Valentines for each other during the month of February. Here's a look at them all.

Jane Davies

The Spaniel Portrait 
The best painting can only come from something that inspires you. Often working on commissions, I’m used to working from photographs, these must be able to evoke emotion within me, be it the line of a neck or the look in an eye, there has to be a spark! 
Watercolor Step by Step


Kolormondo 3-D Color Wheel

Just for fun, thought I'd show you this
3-D Color Wheel

Feb 22

Rose Madder - Rubia Tinctorum

Winsor & Newton
This bright and subtle colour is associated with evoking feelings of passion, desire and love. A study conducted by two University of Rochester psychologists found that this rosy shade heightens attraction.
Rose Madder

Wikipedia on Rose Madder
Scroll to the bottom of page and find a list of substitutions and a song called "Rose Madder" or "Madder Red", depending on the mood, I guess. It's not a good song but thought I'd include it, just for the giggle.
Yeasayer - Madder Red


Lake Pigment
Because this term has been showing up lately in conversations, I thought this would be a good time to find out more about it..
Wikipedia on Lake Pigment

Feb 15

Warning: Severe geekiness follows!

The Ostwald Colour System

 According to Ostwald there were three groups or classes of colours. The first group consisted of neutral colours; those which do not contain colour and are made only from black and white. The second group are pure ‘full colours’, and which contain no black or white. The third group contain mixed colours, combinations of colours with black and/or white. Ostwald identified that all of these groups had at their core four basic hues: yellow, red, blue and sea green. Four further hues - when placed in between the core hues - created orange (between yellow and red), purple (between red and blue), turquoise (between blue and sea green), and leaf green (between sea green and yellow). Finally, two further hues between these colours, created a circle of 24 evenly spaced colours. 
The Ostwald Colour System, The Bauhaus and Winsor & Newton

More About Oswald (warned you)

Ostwald’s Basic Contributions to Colorimetry are:
the spectrum & the color circle (semichromes)
the mensuration of the color circle
the structure of the object color solid
the colorimetric color atlas
color & spectral signature
Colorimetry

Feb 08

Making Beautiful Colours without Toxic Chemicals

The original work trousers, invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873, were dyed with indigo derived from plants. By 1882, however, indigo was being synthesised, and producing denim blue now involves large quantities of petroleum, as well as toxic substances such as formaldehyde and cyanide . . .
Making Beautiful Colours
Thank you, Marlene

Feb 01

Laurie Wigham Teaches in the Sierras

Enrollment is now open for Summer 2020 classes at San Francisco State University's Sierra Nevada Field Campus. Laurie will be teaching a 5-day residential workshop on watercolor painting where we'll work on the individual elements of a landscape, doing lots of small experiments to figure out new ways to paint rocks, trees, water and skies.
Rock, Wood, Water, Sky

Chalk it Up at Goat Hill Pizza
I know this is not watercolor related, but Goat Hill Pizza shows our work every year and they have supported artists since the 70's. Thank you, Mike.