Color Wheels

So the next exercise in the book was to paint color wheels of the primary, secondary and tertiary colors.  Mine ended up a little sloppy, shape-wise, but I'm satisfied with the colors (I'm not sure when my wheels became triangles, but whatever).  Here they are:

Primary Colors

Secondary Colors

Tertiary Colors

Paintings

The first painting was sort of a study for the second one, which (IMHO) is much better.  They are both paintings of the Coronado Bridge in the evening.  The third one is a sort of abstracted view of the moonrise over the ocean.  I was really captivated by the colors, so I focused on those more than on forms.

Study

Coronado Bridge

Moonrise

Only one painting

I managed only one painting last night, but I'm still up to date on my "word count".  Since I have a four-day weekend coming up, I'm looking forward to being able to paint more -- and hopefully building up a cushion for when I go out of town for Thanksgiving.

Tomorrow, I'll scan the paintings from yesterday and the day before.

Three paintings

I finished three paintings tonight, bringing my "word count" to 14,000.  I'll post images tomorrow, once the paint has dried.

A study in contrasts

The exercise was to draw a sort of looping line around on the canvas and then to fill the spaces in with paint.   The trick was that for each painting, we were only supposed to use contrasting colors (like red and green or blue and orange) together with white and black.  We could mix the paints together to make different shades, but not add any more colors of paint.  Here are the three paintings that resulted, together with one I did using only black, white and shades of grey:

Black & White

Blue & Orange

Purple & Yellow

 

 

 

 

Red & Green