#paint talk

[justspiders]

[shelandsorcery]

got a new tube of gouache paint! Winsor & Newton's Cascade Green. You can see the tube colour pure in the top left swatch - the rest are mixes.

Teals are wonderfully fun pigments to work with because of this incredible breadth of mixes possible. Functionally, Cascade Green is working like a very highly saturated blue, giving me really vibrant greens, rich royal purples, and cool, elegant greys. Those singing purples in the last row are mixed with W&N Primary Red and Holbein Opera (both paints that do not like to rewet - especially the opera, hence the confetti of pigment in that one purple), the two yellowish olives with burnt umber and burnt sienna, and those vibrant glowing sky blues with various purples.

This colour is extremely hard to neutralize. the greyest two-colour mixes i could get from it still felt quite greenish, blueish or purplish. It's going to be a very fun addition to any limited palette because of that incredible flexibility.

I chose it over buying a replacement tube of Winsor & Newton's Turquoise Blue, a colour i used with abandon a few years ago, simply because i hadn't tried Cascade Green yet. Honestly, I think i prefer it - I'm getting richer mixes from it, even with my multi-pigment pastels. I wouldn't say no to owning both paints someday, but I'm definitely going to have fun with Cascade Green in the near future and I'm glad I gave it a try.

in terms of its dominance in a mix, it's as dominant as any of my of earth tones, but not quite powerful enough to stand up to spectrum red or perylene violet.

[paintscroll]

what if yuri on ice is just hetalia on ice

[paintscroll]

I’m gonna pamper the fuck out of my roommate today because I think he needs it.

Hell even if he wants to call in today I’ll let him.