If everything else is kept light, even pigment right out of the tube with a moderate amount of water will look dark. For this reason, using mostly pigment and little water will keep values dark. I don’t particularly like the way this looks, but if used in very small shapes it’s not too offensive.
--Joyce Washor

About the Artist
Joyce Washor graduated from Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and also studied at the Woodstock School of Art, in Woodstock, New York. The author of Big Art, Small Canvas (North Light Books, Cincinnati, Ohio), Washor teaches at the Scottsdale Artists' School, in Arizona, and the Woodstock School of Art. She is represented by Horizon Fine Art, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; The Crane Collection, in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts; and The Lawrence Gallery, in Scottsdale, Arizona. For more information, visit www.joycewashor.com and http://JoyceWashorsDailyPaintings.blogspot.com.

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