catherines confessions

Photo copyright Christina Wigren Once again, it's time to play Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday Rainbow Summer School! This week's col our is Yellow ! Let's start with some yellow fall flowers growing in one of the neighbours' gardens. Photo copyright Christina Wigren Here are some of my yellow buttons and beads. Photo copyright Christina Wigren A yellow-coloured crayon was always the one we used to paint the sun or fire when we were children. But yellow has its problems. If you look at yellow pigment when you are painting or printing something, you soon discover that yellow pigment is neither opaque or transparent. You cannot print plain yellow on for example brown paper. It will not cover dark coloured stock (paper). You need to first print a layer of opaque white before adding the yellow. Yellow on top of white looks clean and bright. This was an observation that my teacher at Art School, Phil B. Meggs shared with us during a lesson for print techniq...