1. First, the image has to live on the web. If it’s not there already, put it on any site you control (anyone can get a free blog or photo sharing space you can upload to). If you wrote the post or have a dummy post, it could be uploaded to the post. To get the URL to use to reference it, insert it into the post, then find it in the html. Don’t save the change!

2. To get the image into the comment, just include a line like the following:

3. Since images are common in spam, occasionally an image-containing post is mis-identified as spam. Let an admin know and we’ll fix it.

I’ve added a note on this to Posting Guidance (right sidebar).

RED
burnt Siena

YELLOW
raw Siena
nickel titanium yellow

GREEN
viridian

BLUE
cobalt blue, a warm blue
ultramarine blue, a pure blue

BLACK/WHITE
zinc white + titanium white, approximately equal amounts
bone black, ivory black, vine black, whatever

Red and yellow ochres are also good, they are quite different from the Sienas, more opaque. But to begin with you don’t need all four, better to get to know a pair.

I would NOT try to make your own lead white under any circumstances whatsoever.

Thanks for the advice on colors for the sand and water:

1) cerulean blue
2) cobalt blue
3) cobalt turquoise
4) phthalo blue
5) permanent green light and deep
6) titanium white
7) flake white
8) burnt umber
9) permanent green light

Karl,

Any further advice on color?

David,

I ordered the Liquitex color mixing guide that you mentioned yesterday. Do you have further advice on colors?

Thanks for verbalizing the method for creating the feeling of vertigo:

(1) Strong diagonals
(2) Relative emptiness of half of the image
(3) Blur of near objects

Steve and Sunil,

I agree with Sunil about over-sharpening of the last.
I will try to restrain my over-sharpening passion.

You drive a hard bargain.

I didn’t receive the cropped image that you mention. But, on your site, I did mention a cropped example that I threw together but don’t know how to get to you. I could embed it in an e-mail if I had your address.