colour

Greener Pastures 2 - oil on wood - 8x8

Hard to believe under all this snow that there could ever be grass this green again...but we can hope.  I had challenged myself to use a super limited palette here, using only cadmium orange, ultramarine blue, and white and I did almost paint the whole thing using only those two.  Those two colours will produce a really nice value range, but the tone of the colours produced is muted (that's what happens mixing complimentary colours) much like an overcast day.  I wanted that spring feeling...sunshine... so squeezed out a blob of cadmium yellow pale onto the palette.   Interesting how that one colour can add such zing.  I really love fooling around with colour, it has such an ability to change how we see things.