Bought a tube of yellow ochre at the art fair and I've used it in everything for two weeks
There was a supply vendor at the fall fair near me and I grabbed a single tube of yellow ochre, the cheap student one, because I was out. Two weeks later it's in every single thing on my table. Sky, the dead grass in the field behind the school, the side of the pear I've repainted four times. My husband asked if I was stuck on it and honestly maybe.
Anyway I'm painting the same view off the back porch for the third time because it's what I can see while the kids do homework at the kitchen table. 11x14 canvas board, the cheap stuff, so I don't feel bad about wiping it. The 8 year old says the trees look like broccoli and she's not wrong.
I'm not sure the ochre is a phase or just what I needed. But I bought two more tubes so I'm committed now.
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the ochre thing is real and I don't think you're stuck at all, you've just found the colour that does the heavy lifting for that particular view. I went a full winter where every second print had the same grey-blue in it, same one, and I only twigged when my wife lined them up along the wall drying and goes "are these all the same picture?" they weren't. same ink though.
the cheap board is the right call too. half my good ideas came off the back of a proof I didn't care about ruining. the stuff you'd never wipe is where you get precious and precious is the enemy.
what did the 8 year old say about it, that's the bit I want to know
Ha! The wife lining them all up is exactly what my husband did, only he said it nicer. Yours is funnier.
She said "it's muddy." Eight years old, no mercy, and she's not wrong. I got precious with a 16x20 last spring and it's still sitting half done because I'm scared of the sky, so you're dead on about the cheap board. Eleven by fourteen, wipe it, no funeral.
Yellow ochre's staying. I'll send you the porch view if it ever gets past the ugly stage.