I need to think more about gray and how to use it in paintings. I borrowed the book "Making Colors Sing" from the library. The author, Jeanne Dobie, talks about mixing grays (or what she calls the mouse colors) in a way that makes a lot of sense. To get gray, you mix a color with its complement. That means you mix green and red, or blue and orange, or purple and yellow. With a palette containing only the primary colors of blue (although I have two blues), red and yellow, it's a two step process, but that's besides the point.
If you mix a perfectly neutral gray that is not cool or warm, that's fine. The interesting concept was making grays that lean a certain way. For instance, making a gray that leans a bit towards blue. If you use this gray next to or surrounding the color orange, the orange color is going to glow or sing. That would be true of a gray leaning towards purple used next to yellow and so on.
I hadn't thought about this with mixing and choosing colors in this way. It's a really interesting thought to try both with painting and knitting.
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