Monday, Week 7: Titaniums - Color, The Pigments of My Palette, Oil on Paper (17/02/2020)

New week, new theme! This week we'll be painting from life, and talking about color! We'll be painting some of our tools in order to help us speak about the makeup of our palette. Today we talk a little bit about our choice of white pigment! White is wrongfully not considered a color, mainly because of its absence of hue. White reflects every color in our visible light spectrum. But in truth, when we see white as pigment, it has the same properties that every other pigment in our palette has. It has temperature, opacity, lightfastness, and texture and because of these properties we HAVE to understand it as color. When we don't , when we choose to see it solely as our lightest color and therefore the color that will only be useful when needing to make something lighter, we are doing a great disservice to it as a pigment and to ourselves as painters. Let's then start this week with this fantastic pigment and have a blast painting the old scrunched up tube that was, and the hefty new one that just arrived :) Thank you ALL for your incredible support. Dani and I could not be more grateful. If you like what we're doing, please consider donating :) If you're in a rough spot, no worries, we TOTALLY get it. Thank you for your support!!! http://www.ourpaintedlives.com/donations