The Artist Magazine

A winter palette

Winter is my favourite time of year. I favour the colours, especially when autumn slips into winter and my palette is wiped clean of bright colours and switched to more subtle and muted tones. The season inspires a focused use of earth colours and a limited palette of colours in acrylic, pastel, watercolour and gouache to include blues and oranges.

Anyone who is familiar with my work knows I like to mix it up a bit. Exciting things happen when combining different media; the moment things become predictable I know it’s time for me to need to move on. As an art student watercolour was the first medium I really explored with conviction. At art school it was either watercolour or oils, rarely acrylic. We all

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