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August 27, 2003 at 12:47 pm #983521
Linda Ciallelo
I wanted to give this it’s own thread. Nicolas Uribe just posted this work in progress this morning over at Cennini. This painting is done entirely with cad red, black and white. This illustrates, better than anything , that black can be a wonderful color and so can limited pallets. He is not sure if he wants to stop here or continue painting on this peice. If It were mine I would have difficulty deciding what to do also. I think it is just absolutely beautiful as it is.
August 27, 2003 at 1:14 pm #1014916
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Wow! This is beautiful. If anything I’d bring out the face a little. break my brushes and run like hell.

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August 27, 2003 at 1:41 pm #1014903
artbabe21
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Point well taken Linda—this is superb!

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August 27, 2003 at 1:41 pm #1014908
TainQ2
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Strongly agree. Frame it
August 27, 2003 at 1:55 pm #1014894
guillot
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It looks like a statue, coming to life! Very beautiful work!!! Why doesn’t your friend post their work here?? hmmm???

Tina
August 27, 2003 at 2:19 pm #1014950
xavier
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Drop dead Gorgeous!! This is fantastic ~ Xavier::clap:

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August 27, 2003 at 2:33 pm #1014906
hblenkle
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The prints of Ansel Adams point out that black and white are capable of beautiful images. The Sepia painting of Old Masters are a good example of a very limited palette. A painting I did for Art class a year ago used black, white, and a yellow green. The background and foreground were yellow green. The vase was mostly black and white with a touch of yellow green for reflected light. The contrast in color and seemly noncolor made the vase stand out besides giving it the look of a white clay vase.
Harold
August 27, 2003 at 2:46 pm #1014914
Gilberte
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Very very beautiful ……….
August 27, 2003 at 2:55 pm #1014878
YLCIA
Stunning work!
He should post his works here So we could enjoy them:)

Julia
August 27, 2003 at 3:06 pm #1014918
JamieWG
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Okay…well….I’ll bite and be the dissenter! I don’t like it. I think his rendering is wonderful, and what a shame that the painting is so black and grey. I wouldn’t want this in my house! It’s not that I can’t appreciate his skills….just that it’s not my taste. I look at this painting and think about what it could have been.
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August 27, 2003 at 3:23 pm #1014829
arourapope
It can come hang out in my house anytime it likes. I love, love, love limited pallets. I think this is stunning.

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August 27, 2003 at 4:14 pm #1014880
TomHart
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Beautiful painting!

I also think that the limited palette is a wonderful tool. It suits me, anyway. I think, too, that the avoidance of black is somewhat superstitious…not justified as an all-or-nothing rule, anyway. Black can be overused, but it can also be used stunningly and beautifully.
August 27, 2003 at 5:30 pm #1014941
miked
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Black is a very useful color. But I can understand why some people suggest avoiding it, particularily at the beginning.

I remember one particular major disaster in pastels… It was a night sky scene lit up by lightning. The clouds looked quite black, so I took out my black pastel and went to work – big mistake. I’ve heard the effect described as looking like “a hole in the canvas”, and that’s about right.

Just something to think about before whipping out the black, useful though it is.
August 27, 2003 at 5:44 pm #1014932
Matt Sammekull
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Thanks for showing us this Linda! I think it’s a great piece of work.
And that palette… well add a ochre to that and you basically have the same palette that Zorn used for all of his figures and portraits.

Beautiful.

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August 27, 2003 at 5:44 pm #1014834
Linda Ciallelo
I am presently using ultramarine blue mixed with trans. red oxide for my black for my ebay paintings, but in the recent past I was happily using black. It’s just another way of looking at things. I never used black when I was doing pastels because I didn’t like the dust and the non shiney surface. However Degas and Cassatt used lots of black very successfully. Black is just another color that needs exploration for successful use.
I don’t know why Nicolas doesn’t post over here.
Nicks normal pallet is alizarin crimson, cad. red, burnt sienna, yellow ochre, ultra blue, sometimes viridian,black, and white. This one was just an experiment. But he is usually painting people so it is essentially a portrait pallet. If he were painting lemons he would need more than yellow ochre as his only yellow , I think.
I will bring over a couple more paintings that he posted using all the colors.
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