Two Colour Limit

100 Day Project Day 56

What happens if I make a colour palette using only two colours plus black and white?

I started by selecting one colour, and I set myself up for some fun with fluorescent magenta, because why not? I decided to go with a green so I was in complimentary colour territory, and chose phthalo green. Squodge some lamp black and titanium white onto the palette alongside them, and Robert is your father’s brother.

I did not spend a long time colour mixing, and because I was using a small palette I didn’t go nearly as far as I might have with tints, tones and shades, but I mixed a lovely set of colours for future reference.

I used one of my 6×8″ watercolour blocks to test the colours and clean my palette knife, then once I had a small range of colours, I used gesso to push back the first layer, before scratching in a rough face with an inktense pencil. With the basic face down, I played around with my colour mixes and painted in the face.

This is definitely the spirit of the 100 mini paintings project I have been adding to over time. It’s not necessarily a colour mix I am in love with, although it might feel different tomorrow, but there are some colours I really like. I definitely want to come back and do a more comprehensive set of tints and shades, and push this a bit further.

Til the morn,

Suzanne