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Color Choice

The Artist will create three studies on paper in preparation for the final commissioned work on canvas. She will create these on three different color grounds of the Client’s selection. Please select 3 color swatches from below: Note that the swatches are divided between thin washes of color that let you see the background color pop through and let you see the brush strokes (numbers 1 to 10) and opaque colors with thicker, more textured appearance in which the foreground is dominant and the brush strokes less apparent (numbers 11 - 18).This is an important decision in the overall effect of the final portrait. See and example of each type below.

Portrait created on a thin background wash

THIN WASHES

1. Sea Spray

2. Mossy Red

3. Sunrise

4. Spring

5. Liquid fire

6. Mountain sky

7. Marigolds

8. Sundown

9. Desert sky

10. Hydraengea blue

Portrait created on thick textured surface

OPAQUE COLORS

11. Turquoise over mandarin

12. Primroses and Glodenseal

13. Lake

14. Bubblegum

15. Cool water

16. Dodger blue over crimson

17. Bird of Paradise

18. Tangerine on a blue day