Over the past couple of weeks i’ve been playing around with using a limited palette. For quite a while, now, i’ve tried to limit myself to using the three primary colors —- red, blue and yellow; and white. From these colors you can create almost any other color. This past week, following a discussion in our painting class, i decided to try doing a painting using only three colors plus white, but not the traditional primary colors. I chose Quinacradone Red, Payne’s Gray, and a yellow ochre, plus a titanium white. I knew going into this experiment that i could forget about getting a true blue or a true green. And my teacher had said to expect to feel a good deal of frustration at the limitations. Actually, though, i had quite a good time with this one. So below i will show the palette, the reference photo, and my not-quite-done painting.
LJ and NJ 