Impressionist painters avoided using straight black in the shadow and dark areas of their paintings because straight-from-the-tube black is a rather lifeless color. They chose instead to use chromatic blacks (a.k.a. mixed black), which usually don’t contain any black pigment. They are mixed either on the palette or in advance
Read more →Recent oil and acrylic landscape paintings paintings on exhibit and for sale through the month of June.
Fine art prints and small watercolors are also available.