grays

Bluff, Jasper & Cedar

Bluff, Jasper & Cedar: Grays to Quicken the Imagination

Bluff, Jasper & Cedar: Grays to Quicken the Imagination Nuanced in color and tone, Bluff and Jasper evoke an unreachable and unknowable sense of space or existence. In a mixture, each of these chromatic grays, at opposite ends of the value scale, invites one’s imagination to see the presence of […]

Shifting Color & Light with Grays: Adobe, Bice

Shifting color and light in a mixture, Adobe and Bice offer a unique opportunity to change value and tone with grays as they also modify and soften for a sense of space and distance. Add them to your palette for their colorful hues and subtle brightness, but use the distinctive warmth […]

Silver Point or Ship Rock

Silver Point is that perfect middle gray to mix with a cool transparent dark, like a Phthalo, to show its true coloration and undertone. Silver Point mixed into Phthalo Blue (green shade) brings forward the greenish undertone of this transparent blue. Because it is cool mixing and so neutral, Silver […]