Oil sketch on canvas
10"x8"
©2012 Diana Moses Botkin
This piece is painted with the limited palette attributed to Anders Zorn: cadmium red light, yellow ochre, ivory black, and titanium white.
It appears that the exact colours which Zorn used are not actually known. Most references I found referred to his limited palette as vermillion, yellow ochre, ivory black and titanium white.
However, considering Zorn died before a suitable titanium white was manufactured for use in oil paints, it is my guess that Zorn used lead white, which is somewhat warmer than titanium, or perhaps zinc white.
And since vermillion is not widely available these days, most references for Zorn's palette substitute a cad red medium. Once source used alizarin.
I used titanium white, ivory black, yellow ochre and cadmium red scarlet (since I had no cad red light on hand).
I really missed having a blue pigment. I decided on a figurative subject because most of my landscapes need blue. From looking at Zorn's work, I concluded the limited palette would work well for portraits and nudes, as much of his work was.
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