Finally, a suuny market

This week was the perfect market. Good weather, good crowd, lots of sales all made it happen right. I had lots of products and my tomato sign retuned to announce me and the customers found me. I made new connections. A woman from Watsonville is interested in using my images as signage for her store. Jane, the young Asian woman I've been blogging about came to my booth again and we talked about watercolors and we are meeting this week to look at paintings and talk about them. Andy came by and we talked about the wedding invitations I'm doing for him that uses my cala lily painting as it's focus.

Beets and their greens

The beets were so lovely, and I don't think I did them justice, but this was about the greens. I wanted to use what I had learned in Michael Wilcox's book. I mixed this painting with Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, Manganese Blue, Quin Violet, Hansa Yellow and French Ultramarine Blue. I mixed these colors on the palette this time, not the paper. I was pleased with how clear the greens were. Cerulean blue was the recommended blue, but I didn't have any, so I used the manganese with good results. The cerulean is opaque and the manganese is transparent, so I would think it would make a difference in how the light was abosorbed/reflected and would make a different color. I'm going to pick up tube of the cerulean and see how it works. I was pleased enough with the results to experiment more in the mixing of greens.