Here I am continuing with my color series, it seems. The color gray, like the old snow and misty fog in the sky and mountains around Sedona. The color gray is a hard one. Just think about matching that gray wall or trim when you go to the paint store without a specific sample.
As an artist, you have to decide which of your papers you will use before you even start your artwork. Does it have a slight blue gray tone to it? Is it have a warm or soft tone ?
It could be a parchment white, with little swirls of a grayish pattern in it. So many shades of gray. And that of course will influence the color you use to paint with, or in my case, do my calligraphy . Maybe sepia ink will have more harmony in the body of the text than just black ink? Or maybe I should just mix up some Paynes gray and write with that? So many decisions to make before I even commence. So don't ever think that gray is just a muted black, or a mixed up white, it is its own color.
Any favorite thought you care to share about the color gray?
maybe grey is the middle ground.
ReplyDeletebeing in the middle keeps us from da muddle.
no wonder buddha flowed into da middle way.
grey skies & puddles,
mud & muddles.
why foray into da grey.