Autumn woods painting

[bunn]

 I had a need to make a wedding congratulations card, and since I didn't feel like painting something with boring rings or flowers, I did this.  I'm quite pleased with the colours. It's mostly burnt sienna, Azo yellow medium and ultramarine blue - the grey of the trunks is a mixture of burnt sienna and ultramarine, with a bit of titanium white, and the lady's hair is the same mix, just a little heavier on the burnt sienna,  I used a tiny bit of yellow ochre for the person on the far side's hair and trousers.   The outlining is ultramarine blue too.   

Why all the detail?  Well, I came across the xkcd colour survey and was alarmed by:

The color names most disproportionately popular among women:

1. Dusty Teal
2. Blush Pink
3. Dusty Lavender
4. Butter Yellow
5. Dusky Rose

The color names most disproportionately popular among men:

1. Penis
2. Gay
3. WTF
4. Dunno
5. Baige

:-DDD

Comments

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

This is lovely!

Also the xkcd color survey cracks me up.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Huh? How can men be so weird???

Loved the painting!!

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

I think basically that's how men express frustration after identifying a zillion questions about colors. The whole analysis was kind of fascinating.

Also men can't spell "beige," I guess.

[huinare.livejournal.com]

That's a lovely design for a card.

the grey of the trunks is a mixture of burnt sienna and ultramarine...

I find it rather delightful that you were able to get a tree trunk color out of those two quite different hues.

OMG that color thing. I love some of the miscellaneous responses near the end. 'White if it had a wine spill on itself and let it dry for a few days and then tried to wash it but...'

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Burnt sienna and ultramarine mixed with white is a shade I use all the time - you can make it dark enough to register as black: if you add a little more sienna, it makes a nice misty-heather-hills pinkness, and with a little more ultramarine it makes a stormy sky.

It's called Payne's grey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payne%27s_grey

It seems like that mix should come out brown, but paint is mysterious stuff!

[huinare.livejournal.com]

That's fascinating. It does turn out quite a lovely color.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Lovely!

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Lovely! Very Tolkienian (probably because the lady in the blue dress makes me think of Luthien, though it also has a feel of Lothlorien in its fading but still beautiful autumnal years), and also reminiscent of Pauline Baynes - I think I'm particularly reminded of a scene where Lucy is walking among the trees trying to wake them up or something similar.