Telling a story with turquoise

Turquoise can be your blue sky, deep blue sea, or lush treetops.

I played with some turquoise palettes to get properly acquainted.

I sketched some kids standing outside a school bus using a blue-turquoise Neocolor II.

It was so much fun that I did it all over again with pencil, then used ultramarine turquoise watercolor as my blue. I love a primary palette!

I imagined what a day would be like for one of the kids in the photo, and drew it in panels.

Here’s how that went:

Prompts:

• Add white to turquoise paint for dreamy skies.

• Deepen it with graphite (I love the Artgraf & Caran d’ache RGB sticks)

• Mix with yellow to make lush greens.

• Use it with red and yellow for a turquoise twist on a primary palette.

• Gather up all your turquoise tools and swatch them!

Past Color of the Month videos

Ode to Yellow Ochre

The Wondrous Warmth of Burnt sienna

The fiery punch of vermillion

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