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My favorite oil color manufacturer is Gamblin and each year they run a contest challenging participants to create a painting using only black, white and Gamblin's custom color, Torrit Gray. Torrit Gray is a free giveaway color produced from collecting all the factory pigment that would ordinarily end up in the trash. Rather than discard the pigment, an annual Torrit Gray blend is created, tubed, and then given away with Gamblin purchases as a customer bonus and environmental initiative. I have entered the competition for the past two years, and this year I entered again.
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If you paint, you may want to consider entering. It is really interesting to see what people come up with when they are color-limited. All the entries are posted on the Gamblin website and the company has been very generous in sending a free gift to participants. I really love Gamblin - for many reasons -
and the paint is manufactured in Oregon.
My strategy when brainstorming my entries was to hunt through my digital photo archive for a photo that would make a strong black and white painting. A strong dark/light tonalism usually means added strength for the composition. Obviously things that don't have much color or are already black and white were things to consider.
Maybe you could try it too!
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