{"id":399,"date":"2013-11-11T11:52:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T20:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marianjackson.com\/myblog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2018-02-24T12:46:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T21:46:18","slug":"grey-pencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Grey pencils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use the Griseille method of painting quite a bit, both in oils and colored pencils.&nbsp; Griseille &#8211; a grey scale painting of your final image.&nbsp; In the case of colored pencils, I use it to control the intensity of a color by laying down a first layer of grey.<\/p>\n<p>So, in Prismacolor, there are 3 greys. Cool Grey; Warm Grey and French Grey.&nbsp; Choosing Cool or Warm seems to be self explanatory, but when would French Greys be used? To answer that question I had to make a color chart with all Greys.&nbsp; It s shown below.<\/p>\n<p>When all 3 are side by side, it seems to me that Warm Greys are more neutral, and French Grey is warmer.&nbsp; There are also strong value changes as the value gets darker in all 3.<\/p>\n<p>I am experimenting with Lyra Oil based pencils in an effort to avoid wax bloom, so I added the grey range in those pencils also. There are 3 black. You can see that they relate to the Prismacolor range in one or the other.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you find this interesting and will make your own charts as I do, in an effort to learn.&nbsp; Here is the chart in PDF form for you to download, save and print off. Making the chart helps you learn the value scale also. <a href=\"http:\/\/marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Grey-color-chart.pdf\">Grey color chart PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-400\" src=\"http:\/\/marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/greychart-600x282.jpg\" alt=\"greychart\" width=\"517\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/greychart-600x282.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/greychart-150x70.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/greychart-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/greychart.jpg 943w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, in Prismacolor, there are 3 greys. Cool Grey; Warm Grey and French Grey.  Choosing Cool or Warm seems to be self explanatory, but when would French Greys be used? To answer that question I had to make a color chart with all Greys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colored-pencils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}