In Summer Loft, deep vibrational strokes
of cadmium orange, blotches of vermillion and layers of hot pink and yellow washes bleed into one another, portraying a fluidity as evocative as the sweep of a bullfighter's cape.
Not exact matches
Then adding tiny amounts
of cadmium red to my
cadmium yellow, I got all the various shades seen on the
oranges and apples.
She turns up the retinal volume again and again in the grounds
of her paintings — vast seas
of cerulean blue edged by crisp white lines, or enveloping acts
of domestic violence; equally riveting
cadmium reds,
oranges, and crimsons saturating the picture plane beneath angry gorillas, dancing Chubby Checkers, and kissing lovers; Day - Glo yellows that push up against sharp blacks as «bad guys» in black suits point guns and walk up and down staircases — and employs unusual compositional strategies to draw our attention to these expanses
of high - key color.
Finally, create ranges
of orange, using each possible combination
of the red and yellow co-primaries, starting with the red and yellow that have
orange overtones -
cadmium red and
cadmium yellow.
And that it is possible to lay scarlet next to
orange, next to
cadmium red, next to pink, next to black and bring the whole thing to life with a few patches
of bare canvas and white.
Each
of the approximately 20 works will share a single colour which for this season, is Dr. Ph. Martin's
Cadmium Red, a red with an evocative 1970s
orange hue.
This volume, the first in a series
of four, describes the history, characteristics, and scientific analysis
of 10 pigments (Indian yellow; cobalt yellow; natural and synthetic barium sulfate;
cadmium yellows,
oranges, and reds; red lead and minium; green earth; zinc white; chrome yellow and other chromate pigments; lead antimonate yellow; and cochineal and kermes carmine) that have played a major role in the history
of painting.
I would paint a pile
of poppies and I wanted it to just be about abstraction, and about the
cadmium red -
orange color.