Colour Mixing for Roses - How to Keep the Vibrance

Today I’m starting a commission, and there’s something a little tricky about the colour. It’s roses, and the colour of the flowers goes out of the range of paint. For the peach-orange roses I can have the colour light enough for the lights, but only if I accept not having enough chroma - so duller looking flowers. Or I can have the chroma high enough if I accept a lower value for the lights. But then I need to change the value of everything else to fit. Or do I? In this session I’m starting a colour sketch to investigate how best to balance the values and chroma across the painting to get the effect I want - bright, vibrant roses. I’ll be talking a lot about the range of paint and how you can think about the relationship between value and chroma to make paintings more vibrant. I’ll be doing some live mixing, and hopefully, I’ll get as far as putting some paint on the panel!