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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

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19 comments:

  1. NettyJune 13, 2013 at 5:04 PM

    Three terrific portraits Marji. Happy SOC, Annette x

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  2. RitaJune 13, 2013 at 5:46 PM

    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. GlorV1June 13, 2013 at 5:55 PM

    Awesome portraits Marji. Colors are great.:)

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  4. Tracey FKJune 13, 2013 at 6:07 PM

    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. sharonJune 13, 2013 at 10:26 PM

    Love your faces, great use of the colour prompts.

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  6. Anne MandaJune 13, 2013 at 10:52 PM

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

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  7. Sharon FritchmanJune 14, 2013 at 2:58 AM

    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. Shahrul NizaJune 14, 2013 at 5:41 AM

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

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  9. MandyJune 14, 2013 at 6:17 AM

    These are really wonderful...x

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  10. Clare LloydJune 14, 2013 at 6:35 AM

    fabulous work.

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  11. ChristineJune 14, 2013 at 9:53 AM

    lovely portraits!

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  12. Terri CoronaJune 14, 2013 at 12:56 PM

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

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  13. NatashaJune 14, 2013 at 9:48 PM

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

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  14. GinnyJune 15, 2013 at 7:03 AM

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

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  15. bellefrogworksJune 15, 2013 at 8:45 AM

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

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  16. dentheJune 16, 2013 at 5:23 AM

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

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  17. KristinJune 16, 2013 at 6:34 PM

    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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  18. UnknownJune 16, 2013 at 6:38 PM

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

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  19. PaintingWriteJune 17, 2013 at 3:12 AM

    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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