Background done with gesso, acrylics and glimmer mist sprays.
Final page finished off with watercolour crayons and markers.
This colour palette comes from the Design Seeds website. I have decided to use some of these palettes to pick colours for my art. This is the palette I used for the painting above. I found acrylic paints (I have a big collection of different brands) that were a fairly good match to these colours and used them for the background. I then used watercolour crayons that matched for the details. The only other colours I added were the terracotta pencil I used to sketch with and the blue spray over some of the background to make the girl stand out more. It worked well and I ended up using colours I wouldn't normally pick, like the pink and yellow. I am going to use the Design Seeds a lot more often as an inspirational starting point.
This is an awesome page. I love the background and I love the images. What is Design Seeds?
ReplyDeleteThanks Trish. I have added the link to Design Seeds in the side bar on the right. It is run by a lovely lady, Jessica, who is passionate about colour. Each day she finds 4 photos and takes 5 colours from the photos to make a colour palette. She posts them on the site or else emails them in the newsletter. I have decided that when I am doing art I will use one of her palettes as a starting point. I will sometimes need to add 3 extra colours (I usually work with about 8 colours when I am painting) but it will force me to use colours I don't normally pick. I am a little tired of a lot of my work looking the same because of using the same colours all the time.
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