Next, create ranges of violet, using each possible combination of the different blue and red co-primaries - start
with alizarin crimson and ultramarine blue, which both have violet overtones.
Another canvas features a patchily painted column of dense and loamy greens,
with alizarin and metallic gold marginalia.
Next take an acrylic brush and load generously
with alizarin crimson, and sweep over the red areas in one single movement.
Endothelia were stained
with alizarin red, examined under the microscope, and photographed at 5 different sites (microscope, × 100; digital magnification, × 2.83).
Not exact matches
On the lower area I used the
Alizarin Crimson solution, but
with a far softer brush - a large squirrel - hair watercolour brush.
Fill two egg - cup sized containers a third of the way
with turps (or white spirit) add a pea of
alizarin crimson to one and a pea of violet to the other and dissolve the paint fully (preferably
with a different brush to the one you will be using).
Each canvas began
with a grounding field of fluorescent pink, down which Howard methodically dragged strips of deep
Alizarin Crimson oil paint, using a T - square to shape the precise edges.
I still use pretty much the same palette I used when I first started painting,
with a few additions over the years: Cremnitz white, raw umber, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, quinacridone blue, burnt sienna, lemon yellow, cadmium yellow, Indian yellow, cadmium orange, cadmium or other warm green, Veronese green, vert Aubusson or pthalo green, a purple, cadmium red,
alizarin crimson.
And still, it is not hopeless: the bodies are punctuated
with lively
alizarin nipples and bold yellow hair, and the support between the figures is poignant as they become one body instead of two.
[ok for week no. 2 meeting] white paper 90 lb smooth, notebook is fine exacto or utility knife rubber cement straight edge or ruler fashion magazines, instructions in class to follow commercial paint supply color strips, instructions in class to follow titanium white or equivalent gouache french ultramarine blue gouache cobalt blue gouache cerulean blue gouache veridian green gouache cadmium red medium
alizarin crimson gouache magenta gouache cadmium yellow light gouache cadmium yellow deep gouache raw sienna gouache lamp black or equivalent gouache 2 glass containers
with lids for water plastic paint palette
with dividers 2 - 3 paint brushes including small round tip, medium flat, example # 8 flat or equivalent small spray bottle [facial atomizers are good] clean rag or paper towel
At a first glance, the images in Parsonage's paintings might seem somewhat incongruous; a bloated frog
with a glazed expression named Alice; a volcano cast in
alizarin hues, emitting hot lava and toxic fumes; a crowd of drinkers
with gangly limbs painted in an acrid rose palette, not dissimilar to a flock of flamingoes.