This was probably the project I learned the most from over the course of the semester. I’m very new to painting and it was my first time using colors in a study in which I was mixing them for myself and not just getting them off a palette I found online. My favorite one to work on was the muted palette because there was a such a diversity of color. I liked to see how by adding red blue and white I got lavender, then adding that lavender to a bright orange, made from yellow and red, made a softer orange-brown color. I experimented by adding a little more of this or a little more of that, creating different shades and tints and jumping around the color wheel. The chromatic grays were also a fun one for me because it was my first time seeing how by adding colors from different ends of the color wheel you were able to create these really dark and desaturated colors. It gave me a new perspective on how colors mix with each other. The prismatic one was a little uneventful because it was just taking colors straight from the bottle but it was great to compare it to the muted palette to visually see the difference between a very bright prismatic hue and a more muted one.

Time spent: 4 hours