Zorn pallet

Master artist Michael Lynn Adams steps you through a simple exercise where you'll learn the amazing versatility of the Zorn limited palette.

Master artist Michael Lynn Adams steps you through a simple exercise where you'll learn the amazing versatility of the Zorn limited palette.

By Adriana Guidi in Art Tutorials > Painting Tutorials When you’re first taught to paint with a limited palette, you’re usually given three primary colors—red, yellow and blue. Limiting yourself to just a few colors teaches you how to mix colors correctly, see value and temperature, and encourages thought and planning in your color choices. Today we’ll discuss a different limited palette, one that was made famous by Swedish painter Anders Leonard Zorn, which is often known as the Zorn…

The Cigarette Girl

I had a call regarding the use of Zorn's palette by adding other pigments. The basic idea is to get everything out of the limited three colour plus white palette. Of course you are the artist, so you can do whatever you want. Using the limited palette by itself is a great learning experience. It helps you understand colour and colour theory, and how to mix and place the colours. So lets look at some ways to make the colours work for you. The basic palette is Ivory Black, Yellow Ochre, and…

What is Zorn Palette? 🧐

Anders Zorn (Swedish painter, sculptor and printmaker in etching) 1860 - 1920, Fräulein Marie Cohn, 1900, oil on canvas, 65.7 x 52 cm., private collection

Stickande kulla av Anders Zorn 1901 - Anders Zorn - Wikimedia Commons

Anders Zorn 1860-1920 Zweden

By Dianne Mize in Art Tutorials > Painting Tutorials It’s always exciting to encounter a painting where every shape and image play an important role within the total composition. One simple method for making this happen is by observing and manipulating edges to achieve a specific result. How do edges affect a composition? Edges are the boundaries that form shapes. They can be distinct or indistinct, and therein lies how useful they can be in helping us create a unified composition. A […]