Tag: Colour harmony
Urban Sketches of People at the Cafe using a Limited Palette for Colour Harmony (Day 142)
Day 142 of sketching people in ink and watercolour. Experimenting with using a bright and a desaturated green from Manganese Blue Hue, to create some colour harmony in my cafe sketches.
Colour Triad of Burnt Sienna Light, Manganese Blue Hue, and Quin Gold
Experimenting with a new Colour Triad of Burnt Sienna Light, Manganese Blue Hue, and Quin Gold, to see if this will work for the Urban Sketcher’s Symposium in Toulouse in July.
For the Urban Sketching Symposium in Toulouse – how to create colours you don’t have
Daniel Smith published their suggestions for painting Toulouse street scenes during the Urban Sketches Symposium. So I experimented with how to mix these from the colours I already have in my watercolour palette.
Urban Sketching with the Algarve Plein Air Collective in Tavira
Another outing with the Algarve Plein Air Collective, this time to sketch foliage and a statue in a park scene. Where I moved foliage and a park bench around in my sketch to create a strong L-shaped composition.
Urban Sketching People at the Tavira Plaza and Experimenting with a Vivid Colour Triad (Day 51)
Day 51 of sketching people and portraits at a local clinic. Using gesture sketches, and added ink lines and watercolour. Created colour harmony with a vivid colour triad opera pink, hansa yellow light, and phthalo blue. Used the colour to create a visual hierarchy within the page layout.
