Monochromatic Colors: Hooker’s Green
I’m still slowly (oh so slowly) making my way through my colors on my palette. I have no clue what I’ll do when I get to yellow. So far, if there’s any pattern here (which I’m not saying there is), it’s that purple likes mystery, blue likes plants (and muses), black inexplicably likes laid back (I am saving Payne’s grey for a proper monochrome, but I have to wonder if it’ll be as laid back as the portrait part of the portrait I’ll add to the bottom of this post!) and green…likes bizarre winged organic whatsits. I’m not sure if that’s an ambivalence I have toward green because it doesn’t seem to have the range I like, or if there’s something else to it. I love viridian mixed with alizarin, but that is mostly dominated by the alizarin. We shall see how alizarin fares all by itself with no viridian. And Hooker’s…I thought it was darker and ‘forestier’ than this?
4″ x 6″ watercolor, 11/11/2009
And now for the portrait…figured I might as well post it, since it’s art, and I do like drawing (painting, whatevering) portraits. This is of Wes Bentley playing Blackheart in a very bad movie from a few years back called Ghost Rider. Avoid it unless you are really just interested in mindless borderline entertainment; there are much better comic book movies out there. As to why I painted this? A friend pointed out he looks like a real life version of a character from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic a while back. It got complicated after that. Anyhow, this one is mostly Payne’s grey (well, the portrait part is), but is not part of my monochrome watercolor ’sketches’. I still, as it would seem, prefer to tint rather than mix my colors…though the subject in this case really was that close to black and white that I might as well.
2 1/2″ x 3 1/2″, watercolor, 11/7/2009
