Tag: colour theory
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Sunday Swatching
Some twat was prevaricating about how pointless swatching colours is, that it isn’t creative, and that it spoils sketchbooks, or wastes them, or some tripe. I was good, and I scrolled on past that negativity like a goddess fully in control of her impulses. Swatching is cerative practise. Of course it is. It tells you…
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Two Colour Play Portrait
Today I opened my insanely ancient sketchbook that I would really like to finish with no idea what I was going to do, so I stared at the blank page for a few minutes. Sometimes I think gardening and painting involve a very similar process of standing and staring at things until something in the…
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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,…
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Tonal Values Exercise
100 Day Project Day 35 I’m on a bit of a deep-dive with tonal values and colour. I know the theory, and the ways artists use it, and how it works. I just haven’t been consciously applying it to my own art making. I think that might be because I am always wrestling with the…
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Sunday
100 Day Project Day 29 I heard about an artist who is making art despite being displaced from her home. Her name is Hala, and as far as I can tell, she is currently displaced to Rafah, in the south of Gaza. Today Netanyahu has stated that he still intends to invade Rafah, despite international…
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