Beam handmade watercolour paints - it feels like The Holidays have begun already

 

For santa, I'm using the Zorn palette I talked about before, and Beam Paints.  This time I'm adding Winter Nights as it has some sparkle and I was having trouble getting greens I liked for the holly.

Have a look at how it swatches and mixes with the other colours

Still very subdued but that's exactly what I want.  

One thing I love about zorn colours is it's a very classic movie look for us.  We learn about limited colour palettes by watching TV and films.  And have you noticed if something is set in War Time England, the urban scenes almost always follow the zorn palette so any touch of green or blue really stands out?  Foils War is a good example.  

Zorn is classic in our zeitgeist.  

I kind of like how we can use colours to pull up old programming in our brains.  And sparkles.  

I may have "accidently" added some gold in there too but that qualifies as a kind of yellow ochre, right?

It's that time again.

 

Santa begins.

These are some handmade watercolour paints from Beam Paints and their pre-black friday sale (their mailing list lets you know the sales)

More on that next day.