About Me and ReZilientInk

Fine art, Oil painting, Pastel painting, Watercolor painting, Tips for the struggling Artist, and Art related articles and rants I like 🙂

Creating beautiful Original works of art at a price affordable to everyone. As well as some helpful tips that Ive learned along the way.

I grew up in a small town in Kentucky. Shortly after graduating high school I enrolled in Culinary School and finished in 2007 with an associates degree in Culinary Arts. I worked  in the restaurant industry for a decade using food as my medium of expression. After I evaluated myself and realized it wasnt really about the food it was about the art of creating something other people enjoy and admire. So I decided to get back into fine art which has been apart of my life since I was very young.

All commissions welcome just contact me with your ideas to get info on size, pricing, etc.

Either by phone: (606)-259-1317

Or by e-mail : chris.mitchell521@gmail.com

Watercolor Palette Organizing and Color Selection Tips

Hey everyone,

So I decided to go through and organize my watercolor palette. This can be a very daunting task with all of the colors available not to mention their individual properties such as staining, non-staining, opaque, semi-opaque, transparent, granulating, etc.

Everyone has there own theory on doing this and which colors they like. I like to lay out mine in order of tonal value from lightest to darkest and by color groups reds, greens, blues, earths, etc. Then I will figure out which are cool and warm since that is all relative you cant think of it like you did in grade school as there are cool reds and warm blues and so on. The best recommendation I can give is pick out a single pigment set of a warm and cool of each primary color. Then add a few earth colors such as burnt umber and raw sienna. I also like to have black tourmaline genuine and an opaque chinese white for highlighting rather than using gouache. It helps a ton to have a pre-painted color chart of your colors to help with selection as colors always appear different in the pans than on paper.

From there I just add colors I like and use a lot such as many greens because I focus mainly on landscapes. As well as some primatek tubes I love by Daniel Smith. Including some of the iridescent metallics and duochrome colors available now. They can really add interest to your painting especially when used sparingly only near your main focal point. They sparkle in the light and appear different shades depending on the color you glaze them over.

If there are any questions about colors or anything else about setting up your palette feel free to contact me.

-ReZilientInk-

http://www.RezilientInk.com

Another Seascape

l always loved the ocean we know so little about it, but it covers so much of our planets surface. Anyway  I painted this with very few of the colors shown in my palette below. Tried to keep it simple and let the paint do a lot of work for me on this one.