Warm, olive-leaning foliage green.
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Tropical subjects attract a specific failure: every element is high chroma, so the painter responds by loading more pigment, and the result is a dark, heavy picture of what should be glaring sunlight.
Green is the colour people most often describe as 'hard' in watercolour, and the reason is almost always the same: the yellow or the blue they are using is a convenience mixture that already contains the third colour.
Masking fluid is the only reliable way to keep pure paper white inside a dark wash.
Charging means adding wet paint into wet paint so the two merge without a seam.
