Brand New!! The Colours Of Rory Mcewen
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This is a post service virtually the colours of watercolour pigment used yesteryear botanical creative somebody Rory McEwen.
Today I was dorsum at Kew Gardens as well as revisited A twenty-four hours inwards the life of botanical creative somebody Rory McEwen)
One of the characteristics of his botanical paintings is the intensity of the coloring as well as the nuances he achieves. This partly comes from painting on vellum which is renowned for making colours await intense as well as fabulous. Vellum is non porous as well as thence the pigment sits on summit of the canvass of vellum.
However the colours inwards his paintings are, of course, likewise partly due to the pigment he used.
One of the cases inwards the exhibition is given over to his icon materials.
Knowing how much artists similar to know virtually palettes I used my magnifying spectacles to re-create out the names of the paints he used. So what follows is a listing of pigment colours!
It's hard to know which brands of pigment he used notwithstanding prove from the names as well as from the tubes inwards the display illustration propose he used a combination of Winsor & Newton (much used yesteryear botanical artists) as well as Old Kingdom of the Netherlands Classic Watercolours.
He created his palettes yesteryear placing subway pigment on newspaper or a sparse board as well as and then using the subway pigment every bit a resources for the pigment colours he mixed. Bear inwards heed the size of the brushes he used he was working dry out brush alongside niggling real modest brushes (W&N Series vii sable - a lot of 00 as well as smaller)
It was real evident that some of the paints were fugitive every bit there's directly no coloring left. However it's unclear whether these were used a lot or not. Several people convey expressed reservations virtually around the pigments as well as lightfastness of sure as shooting Old Kingdom of the Netherlands colours (eg run across Handprint's review of Old Holland). I intend it to a greater extent than probable that when using Old Holland, McEwen may convey trying to purpose paints which would convey been available to painters similar Georg Ehret. There over again these were tubes which had non been used much so perhaps he didn't purpose Old Kingdom of the Netherlands much at all!
My personal sentiment - based on the names on his palettes - is that he was genuinely using Winsor & Newton. You tin cheque this out for your self yesteryear comparison the names below alongside the 2 coloring charts for the dissimilar paints:
Note alongside honour to comments virtually where pigment looks fugitive that these paints would convey been those inwards purpose over thirty years agone - at least. Paint formulations convey moved on since then! It is likewise real apparent that he was paying attending to lightfastness every bit a swatch bill of fare accompanied each coloring - as well as this highlighted the lightfastness - at that time
Today I was dorsum at Kew Gardens as well as revisited A twenty-four hours inwards the life of botanical creative somebody Rory McEwen)
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| Tulip 'Helen Josephine' 1975 Images courtesy of the Estate of Rory McEwen |
However the colours inwards his paintings are, of course, likewise partly due to the pigment he used.
One of the cases inwards the exhibition is given over to his icon materials.
Knowing how much artists similar to know virtually palettes I used my magnifying spectacles to re-create out the names of the paints he used. So what follows is a listing of pigment colours!
It's hard to know which brands of pigment he used notwithstanding prove from the names as well as from the tubes inwards the display illustration propose he used a combination of Winsor & Newton (much used yesteryear botanical artists) as well as Old Kingdom of the Netherlands Classic Watercolours.
He created his palettes yesteryear placing subway pigment on newspaper or a sparse board as well as and then using the subway pigment every bit a resources for the pigment colours he mixed. Bear inwards heed the size of the brushes he used he was working dry out brush alongside niggling real modest brushes (W&N Series vii sable - a lot of 00 as well as smaller)
It was real evident that some of the paints were fugitive every bit there's directly no coloring left. However it's unclear whether these were used a lot or not. Several people convey expressed reservations virtually around the pigments as well as lightfastness of sure as shooting Old Kingdom of the Netherlands colours (eg run across Handprint's review of Old Holland). I intend it to a greater extent than probable that when using Old Holland, McEwen may convey trying to purpose paints which would convey been available to painters similar Georg Ehret. There over again these were tubes which had non been used much so perhaps he didn't purpose Old Kingdom of the Netherlands much at all!
My personal sentiment - based on the names on his palettes - is that he was genuinely using Winsor & Newton. You tin cheque this out for your self yesteryear comparison the names below alongside the 2 coloring charts for the dissimilar paints:
- Winsor & Newton Artists' Professional Water Colour - Colour Chart
- Old Kingdom of the Netherlands Classic Watercolours - Colour Chart
Note alongside honour to comments virtually where pigment looks fugitive that these paints would convey been those inwards purpose over thirty years agone - at least. Paint formulations convey moved on since then! It is likewise real apparent that he was paying attending to lightfastness every bit a swatch bill of fare accompanied each coloring - as well as this highlighted the lightfastness - at that time
Yellow
- Lemon Yellow
- Winsor Yellow
- Cadmium Lemon
- Aureolin
- Cadmium Yellow Pale
- Aurora Yellow
- New Gamboge
- Cadmium Yellow
- Indian Yellow
- Cadmium Yellow Deep
Orange
- Cadmium Orange
- Chrome Orange
Red
- Bright Red
- Cadmium Scarlet (completely fugitive)
- Scarlet Vermillion (paint missing from the palette - discontinued?)
- Scarlet Lake (looks fugitive)
- Cadmium Red (paint missing from the palette)
- Cadmium Red Deep
- Vermillion (paint missing from the palette - discontinued?)
- Winsor Red
Pinks as well as Purples
- Permanent Rose (Quinacridone)
- Alizarin Crimson
- Alizarin Carmine
- Rose Madder (crossed through) Alizarin
- Cobalt Violet (looks fugitive)
- Winsor Violet
- Permanent Magenta (Quinacridone) (paint missing from the palette)
Blue
- Manganese Mineral Blue
- Cobalt Blue
- Cerulean Blue
- Permanent Blue
- French Ultramarine (used a lot!)
- Antwerp Blue (paint missing from the palette)
- Winsor Blue
- Prussian Blue (looks fugitive)
- Cyanine Blue
- Winsor Emerald
- Terre Verte
- Sap Green (completely used up)
- Viridian
The Old Kingdom of the Netherlands colours on display are every bit follows
- Cadmium Red Light
- Terre Verte
- Cadmium Citron
- Groene aarde (green earth)
- ? greep licht
- ? oker licht
- French Ultramarine
- Cobalt Violet
There was some other bill of fare for the to a greater extent than dull browns, greys etc exactly this was non visible
For to a greater extent than virtually watercolour paints run across my post service about the best build of watercolour pigment for artists'.
So - what exercise y'all intend virtually his selection of colours?
So - what exercise y'all intend virtually his selection of colours?
- Are in that place whatsoever that surprise you?
- Do y'all handgrip it appears to hold upwardly to a greater extent than W&N than Old Holland?
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