http://dieroteiris.twoday.net/ Here Be Dragons Die Rote IRis Die Rote IRis 2012-05-27T13:50:07Z en hourly 1 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z http://static.twoday.net/dieroteiris/images/icon.png http://dieroteiris.twoday.net/ http://dieroteiris.twoday.net/stories/shades-of-green/ I’m a bit particular when it comes to green colours. <br /> There are a lot of greens in my watercolour boxes - but they are all ugly. Well there is one shade of olive green ... but the rest is ugly!<br /> <br /> So I went to my secret hoard where - apart from more ugly greens - there are three boxes of really great looking green pigments (with poisonous sounding names like cobalt green, <strike>moss green</strike> or cadmium green) and a lifelong supply of shells from the Adriatic.<br /> <br /> <br /> Behold! my! first! watercolours!<br /> <br /> <br /> <img src="http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/ff352/dieroteiris/Blog/grneMuschelfarben.jpg" alt="watercolour" width="300" /><br /> <br /> <br /> And tell you what?<br /> It’s quite easy! <br /> And it’s more fun to paint from shells than from tins!<br /> <br /> <br /> <img src="http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/ff352/dieroteiris/Blog/Muschelgrn1.jpg" alt="watercolour" width="300" /><br /> <br /> <br /> <img src="http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/ff352/dieroteiris/Blog/Muschelgrn3.jpg" alt="watercolour" width="300" /><br /> <br /> <br /> <img src="http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/ff352/dieroteiris/Blog/Muschelgrn2.jpg" alt="watercolours" width="300" /><br /> <br /> <br /> Aparently in ye olden days you could buy watercolours in shells. <br /> It was the industrial revolution that put a stop to this. <br /> What a shame.<br /> <br /> <br /> <img src="http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/ff352/dieroteiris/Blog/grneMuschelfarben2.jpg" alt="watercolour" width="300" /> Die Rote IRis paint Copyright © 2012 Die Rote IRis 2012-04-19T15:48:00Z Search this site: q http://dieroteiris.twoday.net/search