Over the years I have tried to come up with an analogy that would help me explain my process to my students. One that stuck for a number of years was the analogy of an artist’s painting palette. When an artist gets ready to work on a painting they will prepare a palette with several of the base colors they intend to work with in the first layer of the painting. These colors are applied around the outside edge of the palette. Then they pull either the pure color or bits of several colors to the middle of the palette and mix them into the desired hue. They may have to mix in a bit of the neutral medium to allow the paint to flow properly on the canvas, and they try to work on all the areas of the painting that will ...
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