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    CanvasSky
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        I know, this keeps coming up. It’s the greenest time of year where I live, and probably a lot of other places too, and I’m having no end of trouble getting good, bright but natural greens in my plein-air painting. I have both the blue and yellow shades of Phthalo, along with chrome oxide, and so far I’ve mostly been mixing these with other things for my greens. I get better results from chrome oxide in general, although sometimes I want something a little less opaque.

        I know I’ll get different advice from every quarter, but in general, what is your approach to creating a good green?

        Carissa

        #1189162
        Robin
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            I like to play with black and yellows.

            Robin

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            You’ll probably have better luck with this in the colour forum: https://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=14

            It’s going to differ a lot based on technique and medium.

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            #1189263
            CanvasSky
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                Yes, sorry! I posted this right before I went to bed last night. Can a mod move it?

                Carissa

                #1189172
                it’sALLart
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                    Usually some fresh romaine is good mixed with arugula and spinach. Sometimes I throw in a bit of radicchio just for color.

                    I don’t like iceberg, as it has no vitamins or fiber at all.

                    #1189259
                    ARCross
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                        Usually some fresh romaine is good mixed with arugula and spinach. Sometimes I throw in a bit of radicchio just for color.

                        I don’t like iceberg, as it has no vitamins or fiber at all.

                        This post needs a “like” function. :)

                        #1189210
                        Use Her Name
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                            Usually some fresh romaine is good mixed with arugula and spinach. Sometimes I throw in a bit of radicchio just for color.

                            I don’t like iceberg, as it has no vitamins or fiber at all.

                            I would also put a bit of lacinato kale in it. Seems bizarre, but you would be surprised…

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                            #1189173
                            it’sALLart
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                                I’ll have to try that, I like kale cooked, never had it raw.

                                :wave:

                                #1189211
                                Use Her Name
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                                    I’ll have to try that, I like kale cooked, never had it raw.

                                    :wave:

                                    Kale is better raw than cooked. Try to bruise it a bit with olive oil.

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                                    #1189264
                                    CanvasSky
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                                        Tee hee. So can threads be moved?

                                        Carissa

                                        #1189178
                                        Bringer
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                                            Hi,

                                            I voted on the 4th one.
                                            Usually I add a red and then maybe something else.
                                            One of these days, I’ll have to buy a tube of chrome green; maybe I’ve bought one already and can’t remember. It seems that this green is quite good for trees and bushes.

                                            José


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                                            #1189179
                                            robertsloan2
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                                                Like everything else, it always depends on that painting. Also how I mix greens varies from literal mixing to glazing colors over each other or scumbling over each other. I like different mediums and techniques. Rather than sticking to one method, I enjoy experimenting in every painting. Also if I do mix greens from colors that aren’t tube green, it’s sometimes yellow and black as often as yellow and blue, or it’s orange and blue, or brown and blue, it varies on that too.


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                                                Tee hee. So can threads be moved?

                                                Yup, I moved it for you. If you ever need a thread moved again, you can hit the little red triangle with the exclamation mark on the top right of your post and type in the box that you would like a thread moved. :)

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                                                #1189201
                                                Anonymous

                                                    some never use tube greens?
                                                    not me, then I would never get to have fun with viridian, cad green, perm green light, phthalos etc!

                                                    #1189163
                                                    WFMartin
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                                                        I haven’t really used a tubed green for any serious work in, perhaps, 20 years.

                                                        Except for a few, infrequent, test, or instructional purposes,I always mix my own greens with a primary Yellow, and any number of colors available on my palette. I have learned that when I have Cadmium Yellow Light on my palette, the color “Green”, just seems to occur naturally, and it’s difficult to NOT create green, or at least a Green-ish color whenever Cadmium Yellow is part of the mix.

                                                        Fr. Ultramarine Blue, Thalo Blue, Prussian Blue, Ivory Black, Mars Black, Lamp Black, and even Burnt and Raw Umber, mixed with Cadmium Yellow Light, will create SOME sort of Greenish color, and I use them all.

                                                        However, for my usual work, I often use W & N Transparent Yellow 653, mixing it with other colors for deep, dark values of green, and mixing it with white for lighter colors and values. I consider it to be very close in its location to true, Primary Yellow on the color wheel, by scientific placement. It makes green quite wonderfully.

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