The Wondrous Warmth of Burnt sienna

If you want to add cozy warmth to your work, look no further than burnt sienna!

Color detective, Private Eye Burt Sienna cruising across lake Liquitex. :P

It’s a rich color and works well for details on top of paint and muting areas of saturated blues like in my drawings below.

I used a Stabilo CarbOthello pastel pencil to mute & darken my blue shadows.

I mostly used burnt sienna to add details on top of paint, which made me very happy in our Goat Park Drawing Session.

Prompts

• Try mixing your own burnt sienna¹ - use magenta, lemon yellow, and ultramarine.

• Use burnt sienna colored pencil for line work on top of paint.

• Water down burnt sienna paint and note what she does. Hint: it makes a gorgeous pink!

I used Schminke Aqua Drop Watercolor in burnt sienna here.

Colors that sing with burnt sienna

• Neocolors - sky blue, mauve, and salmon.

• Supracolors - granite rose, green ochre, and blueish pale.

• Liquitex markers - light pink, blue violet, raw sienna.

• Yellow ochre anything!

TIP: Start with the muted colors first, then add burnt sienna.

In the video

• I share examples and inspiration for using burnt sienna in your work.

• We look at primary colors as the building blocks of burnt sienna.

• A timelapse of the illustration below, which I painted on a Trader Joe’s frozen dinner box (of Vegan Tikka Masala 😋).

I used a Caran d’Ache Museum Aquarelle in Burnt Sienna 50% and Supracolor in Burnt Sienna for the foreground details.

I can’t wait to see which color you choose for next month! Vote below!