Colour Colour Everywhere!
- At June 30, 2017
- By katzp
- In Behind The Scenes, Process
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The one thing you’re sure to find in any artist’s studio is colour and more colour. Tubes, pencils, powders, pens, bottles – it’s everywhere.
Like most artists, I have my favorite ‘go-to’ colours. I’ll share a bit more about those in a future post. Yet, sometimes a painting calls for something a little bit out of the ordinary, or I’m tempted by the promise of some intriguing new pigment.
It’s a constant challenge for me to narrow down the number of colours in order to amp up the possibility of harmony in the art.
These days, when I’m working in the studio, I find myself doing a bit more colour planning before I start putting paint to paper.
I’ll grab a scrap of watercolour paper, and create a sampler of intended colours and mixes – thinking about where and how I’d like to use the different pigments and which ones I could do without or create from two colours already in the mix.
The challenge is to see how I can create the widest range of options from the fewest colours.
The sampler you see perched on the palette above is some of the pre-work I did to work out colour choices for the painting of a Venetian canal.
The second image shows how those colors came together in the piece itself.