Cleveland Museum of Art Opens Renovations<\/span><\/a><\/div>Today’s sessions with Down on Prospect Avenue<\/em> were filled with pushing and pulling. Not struggling but pounding things into shape: somethings lighter; somethings darker; somethings cooler; somethings warmer–you get the picture (no pun intended).<\/p>\nI also pared back my palette to something close to what it used to be–very limited colors. I’ve written before about how through a combination of wallet and strategy, I used to limit my palette colors stringently. So it was a deliberate choice to increase my colors and loosen up. It was very hard at first. That was several years ago and it’s time to prune the nice-to-have colors like ultramarine violet and cadmium red-purple. It’s convenient to have those colors straight from the tube but it’s also wasteful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Not struggling but pounding things into shape: somethings lighter; somethings darker; somethings cooler; somethings warmer–you get 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