Little wings, seemingly in flight hovering mid air. Could it be a hummingbird? A painting with Naples Yellow, cobalt teal, indigo, and indanthrone blue create a wonderful color harmony I would not have expected from these colors!
![flying over naples yellow, Indigo, cobalt teal debiriley.com](https://debiriley.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/img_2505.jpg?w=381&h=551)
I love the gorgeous naples yellow, a wonderful soft buttery subtle yellow.
Naples Yellow, Not brash nor loud, it is the perfect backdrop for other colours to take centre stage. It retains its own entity, we don’t forget its there by any means.
Acrylic Colours used were:
Naples Yellow, Magenta, White, Cobalt Teal blue, Indigo and Indanthrone blue. The order used yellow first, then the magenta, a hand mixed grey, the delightful cobalt teal blue, and last is the indigo/indanthrone blend.
Normally, I suggest not putting yellow down as a background, as its too warm. But, a nice challenge doesn’t hurt occasionally.
I just made sure the next layers of colors were darker, stronger and more powerful in order to improve the illusion of depth.
![naples yellow indigo abstract painting, debiriley.com](https://debiriley.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/img_2508.jpg?w=347&h=466)
Just gorgeous, Debi! Bravo! 😉
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Fabio, thank you, I’m glad you like it! Cheers Debi
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Love the colours, love the result Debi. I see the bird 🙂 Beautiful!
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Hi Robyn, that is so lovely of you! Glad you liked my Silly Saturday!
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Love it 😃
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Nice color combination Debi, lovely painting!
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thank you Willena for such a thoughtful and wonderful comment! I’m glad you liked this pairing of colors 🙂 cheers, Debi
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Harmonious that is a definition which popped up in my mind looking at these! Beautiful symphony of colors perfectly orchestrated together, just beautifully delightful Debi!
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Hi Eva, thank you so much for that lovely and thoughtful comment! Much appreciated, cheers, Debi
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Gorgeous color combination and shapes – thanks for letting us know the colors. I want those colors now in my pallette too!
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Oh deb. You make me swoon and long for your talent every single time! I’m madly in love with this!!!
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Hi Jodi, …. Smiling. Thank you very much! Good Naples yellow, just right, is magic!!
And, btw, your brilliant pic of the winters bird is stunning!! 🙂
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beautiful! directs your eye to dark colours.
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Many kind thanks! Naples yellow is so lovely, it does a lot of the work for you!
Cheers, Debi
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PS What did you use to mix your grey?
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Pretty much much everything on my palette and then diluted it with probably……about 85% white
It was just using left over paints, trying to keep it all as unified as possible
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Luscious color Debi, ☕️ cheers!
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Thanks Sharon
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Gorgeous!
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Hi Antonia, thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed this pairing of colors 🙂 cheers, Debi
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a real explosion of beautiful colors, Debi. Have a nice weekend, cheers from cold Hamburg, Mitza
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Thank you Mitza, glad you like! I have made a special trip here to get some cool door pics to share with you 🙂
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wonderful, I’m waiting for them. 🙂
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soon!!!
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great, hehe
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🙂 first the downloading and culling and cropping…… You know! lol
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I know, when I come home from Greece I have to process 1200 photos. That takes some weeks, but I like this work. Take your time, Debi, cheers Mitza
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thanks, I get impatient with this process a bit … plus, knowing people are Waiting To See! but, it takes Time. maybe i can sneak one in…
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…. your pallet is so dynamic, and the experimental spirit you have is envious
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thank you, you are very kind 🙂
I didn’t always act like that with paint…. til I just one day, decided “its just a darn piece of paper, Debi!!” and, I didn’t HAVE To, show my family what messes I created either!
Paintings…. livened up after that 🙂
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Gorgeous piece of work Debi – you are right about the Naples Yellow.
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thank you Mary! do you use naples much in your pastels? there should be a similar color I’m pretty sure…
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