Studio Time

I decided that I like the psychedelic feel to this. So… I set up a Santana/Doors/Hendrix/Big Brother/Airplane and, of course, Ultimate Spinach playlist and broke out the phthalos. I can’t think of any colors that are more suited to psychedelics.

I decided that I needed a few more striped objects to balance things out, repainted all of the greens with a combination of phthalocyanine green and lemon yellow, glazed over the black form with phthalocyanine blue and scrubbed phthalocyanine blue into the shadows here and there; again, for balance. I started on the yellowish form and tried to balance that as well.

The colors are actually a lot more intense in the painting. Seeing that I’m still shooting in near dark to counter the glare… the photo doesn’t show them all that well and turning up the saturation just makes things noisy.

Colors: Sennelier’s burnt sienna, titanium white and lemon yellow, Winsor Newton’s phthalocyanine green and Rembrandt’s phthalocyanine blue.