From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape

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Extending the palette with intense reds

Extending the palette with intense reds

(gentle piano music) - [Voiceover] So for this next more vibrant image, we're going to push the palette even further so we'll have some more intense, warmer reds. I'll be using cadmium yellow light, burnt sienna, bunt umber, and then introducing titanium white, permanent alizarin crimson, cadmium orange, and cadium red light. Again I'm trying to imagine these colors underneath here on the leaf so that I can glaze over the top with these lovely warm colors that will come through from the burnt sienna, so I'm just looking for tones that will give me a nice base color for the mixes. Again, just with the cadmium yellow light and the burnt sienna, always gives you a really good starting point for autumnal palette. That's looking pretty good, bit more yellow. That's great. Then I'm gonna add a bit of the burnt sienna. And then a tiny bit of the crimson, just a little bit on the end of the palette knife just to add that red warmth to it. It's looking quite nice as more of a muted yellow…

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