More Color Grids

I love measuring out the grid with a ruler.

I love methodically filling the boxes.

I love the linear, sequential process

as opposed to 

my more intuitive, fast, & loose sketching style.

I created a new chart because of  

two new Winsor Newton tube colors:

Quinacradone Gold 

New Gamboge 

I was curious to see how they mixed with my other colors, 

and how they differed from one another & from:

Cadmium Lemon

Winsor Yellow

Cadmium Yellow

Cadmium Orange

Burnt Sienna

Making these charts is a fine way

to get to know one's paints. 

It's not just about the colors,

but also about the granulation & irregularities

that different paints produce when mixed, wet in wet.

Doing my chart reminded me 

of doing a jigsaw puzzle.

It asked me to be patient until the end.

It asked me to work through the repetetive parts,

even if they became boring.

It asked me to pay slow, deliberate attention to the parts

and to the whole.

No doubt the effects of this study

will show up in my next watercolor sketches.