Continuing with the on-going challenge…
Day 20: Analogous Color Palette
This prompt is one that is well within my comfort zone. I like analogous color schemes a lot. However, I wanted more direction, so I decided to use the prompt cards—a combination of the bought set and my handmade ones.
The color card I chose at random, but the other two were selected after flipping through the deck.
Plaid and the scene of fields sparked an idea to draw a bird’s-eye-view of a farm with plaid and other patterns to fill in the different fields.
I sketched a simple layout of rectangles in pencil, then started painting in my patterns using watercolor. With emerald green as the starting point, I chose to keep it with greens and yellows.
After the paint was dry I added details in black ink pen, letting the picture develop as ideas presented themselves. Starting the fences and gates, I moved on to structures, turning polka-dots into trees, and so on.
This was fun!
Day 21: Your Favorite Medium
I guess my favorite medium is watercolor, based purely on the frequency with which I use it, so that’s what I chose for this prompt.
As for the subject matter, I took an idea from a YouTube video I watched recently. It reminded me of a book Mom read to us when I was young—The Hundred Dresses, by Eleanor Estes—and that suggested the idea of quickly sketched dresses painted in watercolor. I then added details in ink, because really, watercolor and ink is probably my actual favorite.
And that’s that!
