Thursday, June 13, 2013

Summer of Color, Citron Green and Turquoise

Summer of color is a fun project and a wonderful community of artists from around the world.  Last year we followed ice cream inspiration and this year there is a voting process to choose the color combinations.  The first pick is citron green and turquoise.

water color and ws oils
 I was having some trouble with using only water soluble oils and getting the colors citron and turquoise.  I have a limited selection of colors and really mixing what I had wasn't cutting it.  So...  I grabbed the old water color set and laid in the bright colors.  Then using the ws oils over the top was kinda easy and added another dimension.  Hmmmmm... maybe I'm on to something here. 
water color and ws oils

ws oils and felt pens

19 comments:

  1. Three terrific portraits Marji. Happy SOC, Annette x

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  2. Citron Green and Turquoise are not necessarily the colors you want on faces but you managed to make them look lovely! Very nice!

    Rita

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  3. Awesome portraits Marji. Colors are great.:)

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  4. I have been playing with watercolours and acrylics together with The Cuppa project... great fun to work in a new way, but hadn't thought of combining with water soluble oils... sounds like something I should have a try at ... very cool faces... xx

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  5. Love your faces, great use of the colour prompts.

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  6. Wonderful portraits, really like the way you used the colors, great brushwork!

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  7. WOW! They are all amazing and beautiful! I especially love the pop of red on her lips in your first portrait! You used the colors beautifully!!!!!

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  8. Amazing portraits!. You a did a wonderful job at adding watercolor too, so beautiful!

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  9. These are really wonderful...x

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  10. I definitely like the combination - might have to try it myself! They really turned out beautifully.

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  11. Love the combination of watercolours and oil paints. This face is fabulous. So expressive. :)

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  12. Your portraits are beautiful. Great use of two of my favorite colors.

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  13. The portraits are beautiful - and I think you are right - the oils over the water colors adds a special depth.

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  14. Love your SOC-portraits Marji! Beautiful work ....

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  15. WOW! Such eye candy~ I love how you added the bold watercolor on top (so cool in the corner of her eye up top ;) and how impressionistic these portraits are. The brush strokes and colors are really so beautiful and so intriguing. Thank you so much for sharing your work with the SOC, xoxo

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  16. These are beautiful. Your colors look amazing, you did a great job with the SOC week 1 colors. :)

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  17. I really like what you did here - not colours you'd associate with faces per se but I love it even more for that reason - it works wonderfully.

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