Lesson Two: Green

Let’s face it — there are more possibilities for mixing the color green than I can assign a number to. Understanding that means it’s no mystery why Jane devotes an entire lesson to just doing that. For this weeks’ sketching exercise I selected three different green leaves from the yard. After sketching each leaf, I spent a good while mixing blue with yellow, painting dabs on paper and making notes on what I had mixed to come up with that particular green color. My color set is by Prang and contains two greens so I also started with those and experimented by adding yellow, blue, brown, and so on.

The hellebore leaf is actually quite a bit darker than my rendering shows. I have more  work to do to learn about getting that deeper shade. The succulent had many colors of green and the more mature sections have a lovely dab of brownish-red on the very tip; then the stem is a mottled brown. I had hoped to get more sketching done than this but time simply vanished.

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