Episode 56: Jane Blundell – A world of colours

<p>Jane is recognised as one of the art world's foremost authorities on colour and colour mixing. She teaches workshops on watercolour technique and has collaborated with Daniel Smith Artists’ Materials to create the Ultimate Mixing Palette. She even has a colour named after her - Jane's Grey!</p><p><br />Listen to hear more about:</p><ul><li>How to understand pigment characteristics and use them to your benefit in a painting.</li><li>Pigment numbers and what they mean.</li><li>Why watercolour is Jane’s favourite medium.</li><li>Jane’s favourite colours for painting skies.</li><li>How to customise your colour choices to reflect the colour palette in your particular part of the world. </li><li>Working with triads to achieve colour harmony. </li><li>The power of phthalo green as a mixing colour and what it can do.</li><li>Jane’s thoughts on primary colours.</li><li>Colour families and their characteristics. </li><li>Insights from Jane’s course Mastering Watercolour.</li><li>The Daniel Smith colour named after Jane.</li><li>Jane’s project to swatch every professional colour in the world.</li></ul><p><br />Jane’s website (<a href="http://www.janeblundellart.com">www.janeblundellart.com</a>) and her blog (<a href="https://janeblundellart.blogspot.com/">janeblundellart.blogspot.com</a>) are invaluable resources for anyone who is interested in learning more about colour. </p><p>Learn more about Jane’s collaboration with Daniel Smith Artist' Materials to create the <a href="https://www.janeblundellart.com/the-ultimate-mixing-palette-a-world-of-colours.html">Ultimate Mixing Set</a>. To accompany her palette, Jane has created a book called <i>The Ultimate Mixing Palette: A world of colours</i>. You can order the book as print-on-demand from Blurb.com.</p><p>To take Jane’s Mastering Watercolours course, <a href="https://www.janeblundellart.com/mastering-watercolours-online-course.html">click here</a>.</p><p>Jane mentioned the book <a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Natures-Palette-Patrick-Baty/9780500252468?ref=grid-vi