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your colour schemes are always so nice, do you have any advice/rambles on your thought process..? or do you just try to go for it intuitively🤔
love hearing your talks about art and reflections on its meaning to you.. always leaves me with much to reflect on in myself too
I do, a leetle!! I'm happy anyone is becoming intrigued by it ... all my hard ... work ... practicing fully colored things....
https://retrospring.net/@weepingbo2lbrush/a/112770714329392397 <- I answered about some color composition thoughts here...
I think the sticking point of it is starting from even 1 axis, and moving everything else from there. I wouldn't say any of it is intuitive, it is entirely practice and throwing color at the canvas!!! It is through a lot of years of playing that anything emerges ... as one builds trust with own decisions and jumps from those sculpted ledges.... But I think fun happens instantly.... coloring is fun
The thought process... I always suggest looking at a lot of photography, and even the lighting around you on a regular basis, and saving photos that really stick out to you. Sometimes an individual photo will make me go, "WHOA" and think about color in a wholly new way.
I like to stare at Bird and I's skintones in different lighting, and how the discrepancy between them grows and shrinks. The contrast is always shifting, the barrier between us stark or barely perceptible. Internalizing ... how imaginary color is, such an ill-defined thing, might help feel more freedom in playing with it more wildly.
I would say for one piece of small saltiness and antiadvice I guess, I don't think those pre-made 'color palate' websites help at all-- I used to play with them as a young adult, and I don't feel it actually did anything for MY conceptualization of color, I wasn't learning anything, it wasn't an exercise, it was just a sort of game at best (nothing wrong with that). I think really forcing YOURSELF to CHOOSE colors is what will get you farther... its that self-confidence with decisions thing again... trusting that it will be good to substitute white for light green in the lighting.
and, thank you ><;;; I love art... I love the concept of art...
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