Tomorrow will be the fifth Monday of mural work at DiPrima Dolce, 1936 N. Killingsworth. It's taking much longer than I anticipated. 

Green is the most difficult. Green against the gold wall changes radically from palette to leaf or fruit. I thought I could use a limited palette of 3 -6 primary colors (yellow, red & blue), mixing greens...that's how I like to work. I find very few greens worthy of purchase except for Sap green. Sap green is so transparent that it can tint nonchalantly, barely breathing on it's counterpart, only hinting at being green. 

The golden wall of DiPrima Dolce made this palette plan undesirable. I started buying greens trying to find something I could work with, something that resembled a true growing green once it stood next to the saturated wall color, adding blues and yellows to alter it's intensity. Still the green became odd when in contact with the wall. SAP GREEN to the rescue! Last Monday I glazed all green efforts with the Sap. That color changed the relationship with the wall as well as with me.

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