I just finished a quick palette cleanser based loosely upon the Harley auto mechanic location painting. The green interior of this painting was an abstraction of the garage interior, and the rest was just me doodleing! Recently I added more earth and more orange to the palette, and you can really see the palette's colours unleashed in this painting. On location, the chroma (colour intensity) is typically about 50% or less. Except for the blue sky and some highlights, landscapes are mostly grey. Abstract paintings have no such restrictions, but it is still wise to keep the chroma down a little, since a full intensity colour scheme can be hard to look at. Placing bright colours against duller colours can really make things pop, like in this painting the reds really pop against the backdrop of earth oranges.
Cycle of the Cell, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, July 2022 (No. 3049b)
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