Color Chart Mess

Take a tube of napthol red medium (PR170), a tube of phtahlo green blue shade (PG7), and a color mixing worksheet. Stir with a small filbert brush by an artist whose attention isn't totally on the task due to the threat of a young cat's curiosity causing chaos and it being a new paint, and you've a recipe for a color chart mess.

In theory, it should work fine: dab a dash of each color into each section, then mix together on the paper, and spread around the block. In practice, with my attention diverted, the paint dried before I was done and I had to start again.

Next time I will:
(1) Close the door to keep said kitty out, and
(2) Paint a layer of medium on the page first so the acrylic doesn't absorb into the paper so rapidly, and thus will dry more slowly giving more mixing time.

The other option, and some would say the most sensible, would of course be to mix the colors on a palette first... but some days I don't feel like being sensible.

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