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!)

As a child-when asked- I always said that my favorite colors were yellow and orange.  I’m not sure that has changed- as it is hard to imagine a brighter, happier combination!  This week I did three painting with that combination.  I, of course used yellow and orange-but also used Dioxazine Purple(yellow’s complement) and Ultramarine Blue (orange’s complement).   I used each color’s complement to make the darker, shadowed areas of that color in each of the paintings.  The colors I used for these paintings are-

Lemon Yellow

Dioxazine Purple

Cadmium Orange

Ultramarine Blue

Titanium White

Fall Splendor 8x6 $30

Forgotten House 8x6 $30

Peruvian Lilies 8x6 $30