Pie Tones

When thinking about what to paint for my wonderful friends I thought back to a moment we shared together eating pies. We traveled all the way to Brooklyn to try the Four and Twenty Blackbirds famous pies. We bought one slice of each kind they had. Then we displayed them out on the table before we dove in. Their arrangement looked so pretty that I didn't even want to disturb them. The dark table against the white plates and the yellow crusts were just lovely to look at. A perfect composition. I had that thought for about a second because the salted caramel slice was calling my name.

Before I start my pie inspired painting I need to mix my pie colors, my pie-tones you might say.
I started with yellow ocher, alizarin crimson, lemon yellow, raw umber, and venetian red. These mixed with titanium white will be my mid tones.