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Here's a sample of the new video "Color in Practice" (Link to YouTube)

By adding a bright red and a couple of dull yellows to black and white, you can paint with the appearance of full color. 

Post cover by J.C. Leyendecker

That makes a small gamut of colors that was popular with the early illustrated magazines because they could print them with just two colors, black and red.

This palette of colors is often associated with Swedish painter Anders Zorn. Although Zorn often used a fuller palette that included blues and greens, he has become associated with this limited palette, which is well worth trying out. Zorn used vermilion for the red, but I'm substituting pyrrole red instead of the more toxic vermilion or cadmium.

For this location sketch, I paint the underpainting in advance in the studio with casein, but you could use acrylic-gouache, or gouache mixed with some acrylic matte medium for the underpainting. It’s a thin layer of raw sienna casein mixed with white. 

On location, I start by drawing the main perspective lines with a brush, showing the edge of the counter and the vertical column. I cover most of the underpainting with semi-opaque layers of gray mixed from white and black. I look for big gradations, which I apply with layers of black and white. 

I paint the computer first because it’s so important. But that means that in order to paint the objects behind it I have to paint them around it. Greg arrives at his workstation. I say, “You don’t have to hold still. I’ll just paint you while you’re working.” 

With gouache I can opaquely cover those background areas that I had already defined. I add the tiny final accents in bright red.
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Previous post about the Zorn palette.
The full video is available at Gumroad as an HD download or lifetime streaming 

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