Alphabe Thursday … U is for Umber and Ultramarine

I have previously discussed umber and ultramarine under the guise of brown and blue; but neither, I believe can be exhausted. As a printmaker I use ink daily particularly black. I am a new printer and reluctant to invest too much (money) at this early stage. So I have kept my palette to black!

That is of course until I was introduced to the possibilities of other colours and ‘extender’ when I attended a printmaking class at Artichoke.  

My teacher showed me the value of ultramarine and raw sienna ( I know we were talking about umber but some how I confused the two and bought umber when I returned home) Nonetheless it was as if I had been set free (I was going to say from prison; but perhaps that is a little melodramatic) Like a dog with two tails I have been printing teapots, boots and bikes in varying degrees of ultramarine and umber.

Who knows what will happen when I find the funds for process yellow and magenta.