Has your palette ever gone wacky on you?

[EFerrari]

I did a "first draft" of a landscape and it went all blue and dark gray and green instead of the soft earth tones I was looking for. Damn. I left it alone for a couple of weeks and will try to yank it back today to the right range. That was weird.

:shrug:


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[porphyrian]

1. Take off the colored sunglasses, silly.

;)

I don't paint very often now that I have all my technological gadgets, but the only time that ever happened to me was with an old can of oil-based that sat in storage for years in Florida heat. The oil separated and reacted with the metal, or something, and it didn't match what it should've.

Do you use a clean palette, or do you work on top of old dried stuff? Or, did you use something strange/different as a canvas?

[EFerrari]

2. I figured out that the white I'm using is sort of gray.

My family gave me buckets of paint for Christmas -- acrylic house paint and this white is not that white. Another friend gave me this funny set of pre mixed colors and they're pretty but they mess me up, too. I do best when I start out with just primary colors, black and normal (titanium) white and goof from there.

And I use just about anything at hand for a palette. The cats hide, in fact, when they see the brushes come out. Paper plates, aluminum pans, saucers, whatever will sit still. :P

[porphyrian]

3. Heh, heh, does that make you a paint terrorist? - n/t

[EFerrari]

4. My family seems to think so.

:-)