The white Zorn used, which was lead white, equals to our titanium white, but it was not only used to create bright highlights, but to cool down the colors. So even with watercolors, allowing the white of the paper to be your white, doesn't make justice to the Zorn palette. Is not enough, you need an opaque white, to do the trick, at least a white gouache. Also the Ivory black he used, which is no longer available, had a distintive blue undertone, which he actually used to create blues, when mixed with white! His Ivory Black served as a black and a blue! Today we can use a paynes gray, a very dark in its mass tone to substitute his ivory black. And as for the red, he used Vermilion, which is no longer available. The vermilion color today is a red orange but still an orange, his vermilion was a warm red that lean toward the orange when mixed with white, The closest color we have now, to his vermilion, would be cadmium red light .
I tried to use white like the background of the paper and it just did not work. So I took white gouache. The result was interesting, very nice, just I felt like cheating....but still do not have a better way to do it., if I use watercolours. Zorn used oil paints, quite another technique...
@@zornitzapetrova7339 Zorn is known for his oil paintings but he focused on watercolors in his early years and did many! Some of them are mesmerizing. The "Zorn" palette is actually the Apelles palette used two thousand years ago in ancient Greece. Anyhow the Zorn palette was used by Zorn mostly for his oil intimate nude figure and portrait paintings when he had to paint landscapes and also in his watercolors he had still a limited palette but with more colors.
Nice video! Well done! Informative, rather then watching an unboxing, followed by the painting of an Angel, in horrendous colors, with glitter on the wings. :-)
This is so good! Such a clear and perfect demonstration.
Thanks SK
The white Zorn used, which was lead white, equals to our titanium white, but it was not only used to create bright highlights, but to cool down the colors. So even with watercolors, allowing the white of the paper to be your white, doesn't make justice to the Zorn palette. Is not enough, you need an opaque white, to do the trick, at least a white gouache.
Also the Ivory black he used, which is no longer available, had a distintive blue undertone, which he actually used to create blues, when mixed with white! His Ivory Black served as a black and a blue! Today we can use a paynes gray, a very dark in its mass tone to substitute his ivory black. And as for the red, he used Vermilion, which is no longer available. The vermilion color today is a red orange but still an orange, his vermilion was a warm red that lean toward the orange when mixed with white, The closest color we have now, to his vermilion, would be cadmium red light .
I tried to use white like the background of the paper and it just did not work. So I took white gouache. The result was interesting, very nice, just I felt like cheating....but still do not have a better way to do it., if I use watercolours. Zorn used oil paints, quite another technique...
@@zornitzapetrova7339 Zorn is known for his oil paintings but he focused on watercolors in his early years and did many! Some of them are mesmerizing. The "Zorn" palette is actually the Apelles palette used two thousand years ago in ancient Greece. Anyhow the Zorn palette was used by Zorn mostly for his oil intimate nude figure and portrait paintings when he had to paint landscapes and also in his watercolors he had still a limited palette but with more colors.
Nice video! Well done! Informative, rather then watching an unboxing, followed by the painting of an Angel, in horrendous colors, with glitter on the wings. :-)
Thanks Mike
My buddy's name is Anders and he's from Sweden. It's said like 'un-desh'.