Tag: limited palette

  • Crooked Street

    Crooked Street

    Using some of my photographs from last week’s trip to Orkney as references, I did some painting in my sketchbook. I limited my palette to three colours and titanium white – phthalo turquoise, naples yellow red and permanent red violet light. I used one scratchy brush for the undersketch, and then one flat brush for…

  • Apprehensive

    Apprehensive

    I am preparing for a wee trip that will hopefully double-up as an artist date kind of thing, with some experiences to fill the well, alongside meeting familial obligations. I am avoiding my To Do List, and navigating executive dysfunction like a pro, so the fact I have painted at all is merely an example…

  • Quirky Cat

    Quirky Cat

    A ten -minute challenge to paint a quirky cat ornament study while limited to chunky scratchy brush and only two colours plus white. Also testing out some inexpensive A3 paper I picked up. It will do a trick, but I’ll buy something different next time. Til the morn, Suzanne 218/300

  • Two Colour Limit

    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,…