In my blog, I am trying various color schemes to expand my painting vocabulary.  To that end, I am selecting a different color scheme/limited palette each week and basing three little 8 x 6 paintings upon that color palette.  If you have any suggestions of color palettes I should try, please email me at nvenhuizen@gmail.com. ( I’d love to have a comment section on this page, but I haven’t yet figured out how to do that!)

 Red and green together often remind me of Christmas, but actually there are a fair amount of red and green scenes around in the spring as well.  In rural South Dakota there are a plethora of old red barns, that are surrounded by the complementary greens of spring trees.  Also, there are lots of red flowers and blossoming red trees.  I used these colors for the following paintings:

Cadmium Red

Alizarin Crimson

Cadmium Yellow 

Ultramarine Blue

Lonely Barn 8x6 $30

Black Hills Barn 8x6 $30

Spring Reds 8x6 $30