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PALETTE STRATEGIES
Working with color strategies and color grouping reinforces our understanding that color choices are never arbitrary. Every choice is driven by our color goals for that painting. So, it stands to reason that the particular colors we choose for our palette will not be arbitrary either. Like ingredients in a recipe, the particular pigments we use in a painting will direct the kind of harmonies or “flavors” that can be achieved. Our palette and color strategy have a reciprocal relationship: the strategy determines which colors we will include on our palette and the palette supports the strategy.
We will review two essential practices in the palette strategy: the limited palette, which simplifies color mixing and helps ...
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