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Originally Posted by Mike McCarty
Garth,
That is one beautiful painting. You seem to have the franchise on these important legal folk. Why would they want anyone else I wonder.
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For the sake of variety, there are still a number of artists actively commissioned at this venue.
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Are you sure you used all those colors? I can't seem to find number 21 - Mussini Neapelgelb Dunkel #232. No wait, there it is, sorry.
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Well there is just a note or two of this color in the flag fringe. I believe all those yellows are part of the orchestral score of that fringe. I shoot for earth yellows first. If the color needs more fortification then I will summon the more chromatic yellows in a second rank of attack. I find it hard to get to where I have to go with just a cadmium yellow; I like a full orchestra to draw out just the right visual and chromatic timbre. Of course this applies to fleshtones and everything else in the painting.
A full array of reds was most helpful for color development in the flag stripes. For that long downward semi-shadow stripe, the color was simply modulated principally with just two reds: the Mussini Cadmium Red Tone (which is a sopisticated equivalent hue of cadmium red medium), and the Winsor & Newton Light Red (which is a warm, robust, earth red). The more lit parts were an equal admixture of those two reds, while the deeper parts modulated to mostly the Light Red (which looks greener and more receding in that relationship).
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I too have been between those two beauties. My memory is of a beautiful outdoor garden cafe in California. The encounter raised my IQ a full 20 points, which brought it (briefly) up to a robust 110. Regrettably I have not had the pleasure of meeting Heidi.
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When I arrived and met them, Linda and Chris told me they had a great time with you that day in California. When I realised Heidi was within an hour's drive of the others, I was so glad she could join us also. My I.Q. and self esteem seemed to surge for the day as well!
Garth