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Trying out the blue with a test painting

You may remember my flutter of initial excitement about the possibility of adding a stable blue to my palette. Yesterday I finally tried it in a quick painting in my journal. It worked! It’s so exciting to have this color to use now. But until next year, the supply is very small and I’ll have to go sparing with it. Once the dayflowers begin blooming, I’ll get busy harvesting and storing up more pigment.

My first painting using the blue pigment from the Asiatic dayflower petals.
Blue Skies, Pink Sunset featuring the blue from Commelina communis

How much blue on hand?

At first glance it seems like not much! All the pigment I have is stored in these 3 squares. The darkest one is almost fully saturated. The missing corner is the amount I used to do the blue in my painting in the photo above. It’s a small painting, almost 5 x 7″. There was a lot of pigment in that tiny snip, though, so it does seem to go a long ways. Unless I go wild with blue, I think these squares will last until the flowers bloom again next summer.

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    1. So, I’d say the blue is a ‘go’, then? LOL, honestly, I was worried it would make my paintings look like all the other paintings in the world if I had blue skies… but I really like it too. Thank you.

    1. Thank you! It feels surreal to have a blue after wishing for it for so long, ha, but being unwilling to just go out and buy some. I like anything ethereal, so glad you get that impression!

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