Painting II Class-Giorgio Morandi

(This post on Morandi was originally posted last September for my Fall 2009 painting class. You can take a look back and read the discussion)  

By pushing warm and cool colors Morandi got some beautiful results! If you look closely you can see he was probably using some ultramarine blue as well.

Take a look at the work of Giorgio Morandi. He got amazing results with a limited palette and very pared down still lives.  It is the hue, tone and mood that he was able to produce in this work that make it outstanding. The light that emanates from these small paintings is so beautiful!

Below I'm also including a photo of one of the paintings done by a student last semester with the limited palette that you are using. She was able to achieve a nice range of color by really pushing the relationships between the colors. She is making the most out of this palette. Let me know what you think...