Take delight in colour
I was out last night when I would ordinarily have been writing this post.. well, I have to play sometimes. So here is a quick and easy task to make your Friday easy as well as mine.
Find two, three or four colours that please you when they are placed beside one another. That’s all. This isn’t about producing a finished picture; the idea is just to make yourself aware of what you do and don’t like in colour combinations. If you do this sort of thing regularly, you’ll have a back-up bank of colour palettes ready for when you do want to sit down and make a picture.
If you are in front of a computer, this couldn’t be easier - Photoshop allows you to preview colours next to the last used colour in its picker. If you make a note of the hexadecimalvalues, you’ll be able to replicate your choices at any point in the future.
But it has to be said that this is most fun when you have something squidgy (acrylics?), or flaky (pastels?), or waxy (crayons?) in your hand. Moving colours about the page with no desire other than to see how they look is one of life’s small pleasures.
Posted: August 24th, 2007 under Drawing for fun, Drawing on a computer, Colour.
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Your suggestion inspired me to try (ahem) just the opposite… thanks :)
‘colours I don’t like’
Damn! I tried to delete your comment and it deleted the one replying to it, too - ie, the one with the correct link in it! Which I had a look at befopre I deleted it and, oh boy, I loved that picture! Please post again!
hahahah… mercury is not retrograde so I guess it’s just a not-very-good-html-day… ;0)
Crossing fingers…
‘Colours I don’t like’
Yay! Yes, I love the whole feel of that picture, colours and subject-matter.
Hi, I’m a bit late, but these are the colours I ended up with after doing this. I’m posting them with the picture I painted out of them, it’s a fake flower decoration I own, it really hasn’t scanned well. And the colours themselves haven’t scanned all that well, and generally scanning was a bit of a nightmare, but all the same:
I like it- the whole loose feel of the flower.