{"id":664,"date":"2017-06-30T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T15:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/?p=664"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:18:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T15:18:19","slug":"colour-colour-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/behind-the-scenes\/colour-colour-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Colour Colour Everywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The one thing you\u2019re sure to find in any artist\u2019s studio is colour and more colour. Tubes, pencils, powders, pens, bottles \u2013 it\u2019s everywhere.<\/p>\n

Like most artists, I have my favorite \u2018go-to\u2019 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\u2019m tempted by the promise of some intriguing new pigment.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a constant challenge for me to narrow down the number of colours in order to amp up the possibility of harmony in the art.<\/p>\n

These days, when I\u2019m working in the studio, I find myself doing a bit more colour planning before I start putting paint to paper.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll grab a scrap of watercolour paper, and create a sampler of intended colours and mixes \u2013 thinking about where and how I\u2019d like to use the different pigments and which ones I could do without or create from two colours already in the mix.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The challenge is to see how I can create\u00a0the widest range of\u00a0options from the fewest colours.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The second image shows how those colors came together in the piece itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The one thing you\u2019re sure to find in any artist\u2019s studio is colour and more colour. Tubes, pencils, powders, pens, bottles \u2013 it\u2019s everywhere. Like most artists, I have my favorite \u2018go-to\u2019 colours. I’ll share a bit more about those in a future post. Yet, sometimes a painting calls for something a little bit out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[93,90,10,92,11,9,8,91,19,12,13],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes","category-process","tag-art-process","tag-colour","tag-fine-art","tag-making-choices","tag-pat-katz","tag-patricia-katz","tag-pauseworks-studio","tag-pigments","tag-process","tag-watercolor","tag-watercolour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}