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

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Extending the palette

Extending the palette

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

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Extending the palette

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(serene music) - [Voiceover] So for our first color mixing exercise of autumn, I want to show you how colors can work together within a woodland scene. You get this really lovely glow over the whole of the image, and when you have a closer look at the colors, you can see that they're all within quite a muted and compressed tonal range. So, still just using a limited palette, you can create some really successful mixes. The base pigments I'll be using are burnt umber, cadmium yellow light and burnt sienna. So I just start by mixing a muted green which can perfect if I was going to glaze warmer colors over the top of it. So you can see in that middle area where the grass is there, that's the green's absolutely perfect for that. It's got, it's such a muted green, you take it away, it doesn't really look that intense, especially say if we compare it to the thalo green which is so intense and vivid, but just using the burnt umber and the cadmium yellow light, you can get this really nice…

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