The first week’s over and I’m already feeling better about my skills in portraiture. Limiting myself to a dead color palette allowed me to ease into my challenge without having to worry about the issues of a full color palette. Dead Colors The first week I limited myself to a specific palette: dead colors. Dead colors consist of pigments that are not naturally vibrant or lively hence the word dead. The ones I used were: Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Raw Umber, Brunt Sienna, Brunt Umber, Payne’s Grey and Mars Black. For my first life painting class we created 5 color strings with these colors: warm greys, yellows, warm reds, cool…