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Why Limit Your Palette?
// Gurney Journey
The new issue of International Artist magazine (#106, December/January) has a four-page feature that I wrote on extreme limited palettes—palettes that have four or fewer colors plus white.
One rhetorical question I pose is: Why limit your palette?
1. Paintings from limited palettes are automatically harmonious, but they're very often eye-catching and memorable too.
2. Old masters used limited palettes by default because they just couldn't get the range of pigments we have now. Using older, quieter colors can give a much wanted mellowness.
3. A limited palette forces you out of color-mixing habits. If you don't have that standard "grass green" color, you'll have to mix it from scratch, and you're more likely to get the right green that way.
4. Limited palettes are compact, portable, and sufficient for almost any subject. In fact you can paint almost anything in nature with just four or five colors.
In case you missed it, here's a recent video showing a painting made with just two colors plus white (Link to YouTube video):
International Artist magazine has been successfully using the cross-media strategy of printing QR codes next to paintings for which there is an accompanying YouTube video.
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Previously on GJ: Limited Palettes
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