Grey and Brown
-more paintings fail because of too much intense color rather than too much gray
-”better gray than garish.” Ingres
-one must resist the tendency to see grays or browns as dirty, they are not: they are the “chef’s sauce” of the picture
-cure for the “fruit salad disease” in a painting (to much pure color) is good value organization. Plan before the final colors are mixed. Try a simple color scheme with one strong chromatic color supported by a range of neutrals and complements. All well placed grey makes pure color sing.
Handling Green
-banish green pigments from palette, mix them from yellows and blues
-resulting mixtures will be weaker and more varied, both qualities that you want
-avoid monotony
-vary your mixtures at both the small scale (leaf to leaf) and large scale (tree to tree)
-mix up a supply of pink or reddish grey on your palette and weave it in and out of the greens
-prime canvas with pinks or reds, and allow it to show through at times to enliven the greens
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