Limited palettes - Zorn and the Zorn Palette
In art, sometimes less is more. Sometimes it is better to merely suggest detail than paint every hair on a head.
Sometimes it is better to use fewer colours than more.
A good exercise is to paint using a reduced palette. It can create a more harmonious image, and it teaches us how to mix paint rather than buy a new colour.
The most famous reduced palette is the Zorn Palette - which takes its name from Anders Zorn, the Swedish artist.
So we will be painting using just 4 tubes of paint!
Titanium White
Ivory Black (Lamp Black also works)
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Red
If you would like to take part, please bring along
a canvas/board.
These 4 pigments (or the closest you have)
a palette knife for a bit of mixing
A self-portrait of Anders Zorn, smoking a cigarette and working with his famous 4 colour palette. Naturally the painting itself was painted in the Zorn palette.