I went to the store today in search of the holy frozen Pizza grail and found it, but along the way I found something else that was yellow and orange, kind of like cheese on a pizza.
As I pulled in to the parking lot, I saw a woman carrying out a bright orange Lily. It wasn’t a Day Lily either, which I have had no luck with yet, but the asian kind, like the Black Lily that has great purples and that fabulous yellow. I went in and went to the flower section.
Bursting from the shelves were bright orange flowers and huge anthers loaded with pollen. I immediately wanted to load them all in my cart, but I was after pizza and I was also on a budget. I picked out a medium sized one that has lots of blooms left to come on, but that also had a few open and ready for sampling.
I was happy and excited until I looked up and saw the even bigger purple and white Lilies, with bulging dark orange anthers, the orange Lily had a brown anther that I wasn’t sure what color it might give.
I plucked a couple of the anthers off the other plant and dropped them in with mine, grand theft anther…all in the name of color.
I decided now was as good a time as any to put the samples in the current Palette Book and take a few pictures to show what it looks like. This is from one of the orange pages, the book is separated in the old grade school ROY G. BIV format.
Here you can see the color results from the Orange Lily, the first is from the leaf, it dries a little on the peach side, with streaks of purple in it from somewhere.
The anther gives a nice burnt umber brown that will go really nice doing dirt, forest floors and maybe tree trunks. Unfortunately, though I love yellow, red and orange, I am definitely in something of a blue period. They give me calm.
The next picture is the whole page thus far. In addition to the orange Lily and Anther, you see Orange Marigold and the Anther I borrowed from the white and purple Lilie’s.
It is important to note, this palette book is more of a thick card stock paper, what I picture a water color painter would use. I have yet to try these out on canvas. Someday soon I hope to find a canvas paged book to start a canvas palette book with.
If anyone knows of something like that that exists, please let me know.
I’ll do more palette pages over time.
