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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Michael Klein's Palette

Michael Klein (b. 1980),  is an American, realist painter currently living and working in New York.
  • Raw Sienna Light
  • Cadmium Yellow Pale
  • Yellow Ochre Pale
  • White (Either Cremnitz or titanium, or a mixture of the two)
  • Cadmium Orange
  • Cadmium Red Deep
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Permanent Alizarin Crimson
  • Raw Umber
  • Burnt Umber
  • Cobalt Blue
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Ivory Black
  • Cobalt Violet
  • Viridian Green


Michael typically works on lead primed linen, or on a high quality alkyd or oil primed linen like Claessens #13 DP, Portrait Grade. He often primes this with an imprimatura of ultramarine blue and burnt sienna, mixed incompletely and diluted with turpentine, applied with a rag and rubbed down on the canvas. His usual brushes are Royal & Langnickel 5590 Sable Flats, and Robert Simmons Signet Flat Bristles.













nod to Matthew Innis for permission to post this exert from his blog. 

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