making these read yellow and not orange was tricky!
i haven’t really gotten the hang of mixing these oil pastels to achieve custom colours yet. I can do it but I don’t really have a go to method, not a real understanding of which colours mix how. the mungyo and haiya ones, which were more affordable, definitely mix to less saturated results than the caran d’ache neopastels or the sennellier pastels do, but sometimes you want those more muted results. My still life painting teacher back in 2009, Trudy, called them her “mouse colours”, and that charming language had stuck in my head sadly far better than my ability to plan for, mix, and make good use of neutrals.
something to work on for the next piece, i suppose!
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