This has to be one of my favorite color palettes,
and it's very similar colors to what I normally use, but just with a few little changes. This yellow color here
is actually a mixture of Amsterdam's yellow gold with a little bit of AO yellow medium in there,
and it really muted the yellow to make it play with the purples and the oranges really nicely. I
went through multiple stages with this painting, trying to figure out what I wanted to do. So I
knew that I wanted to start as a puddle pour, but I didn't know if I wanted to wreck through
it or leave it as color blocks. And you'll see as this unfolds, kind of what I decided to do.
I ended up using these huge buckets of paint, which I wouldn't recommend because it makes it
really hard to pour out. But when I'm working on larger canvases, I like to mix up a bunch of
paint at one time, so I don't find myself pausing in the middle. And this was also another painting
that I had made for Arty gr, and don't worry, I will be coming out with a video on how Arty
grow went. And yes, if you saw my post, it did get rained out one of the days. That's okay, I had
an amazing time at Arty CRA, it was so much fun, and I can't wait to put that video together
for you. It's just going to take me a little while because of all the footage. So I chose to
have this painting predominantly with purples and magenta Genta, and I used the orange and the
yellow and the dark blue as accents. So so far, you've seen the yellow gold mixture, you've seen
the muted orange that I used, and some of these are just colors that I've mixed together. That is
a bright magenta by Amsterdam, and then the purple that I'm using is ultramarine violet. I chose
not to use Blue Violet because it dri very dark, and I wanted this painting to really stay
bright with the colors that I was using, and this shade of purple works really well with
the lighter, kind of almost orangish shade of the yellow that I was using. So I'm just using the
purple really to fill in some spots because when the magenta mixes in with the blue and with
the turquoise blue you see there, it is going to mix to almost a purple color as well. Now this
palette may seem very bright and colorful to you, but it works so well together because of
the saturation of the colors and because the colors are a little bit lighter and not quite
as bright. Here I am contemplating, am I going to wreck through this? Am I just going to tilt it out
and color block it? And this happens a lot when I'm painting by myself, when I'm in the studio and
I'm just painting just to make paintings. I start, and I kind of contemplate and think along the
way. And when I'm doing videos for you where I'm talking, I've already planned out most
of what I'll do so that I can talk through it and make the video without having to make too
many edits. But when I'm painting for myself, I just go for it and I wing it along the way.
And that part of creativity is so much fun for me. So what I decided to do is to go ahead
and swipe through it, see what it looked like, and then I could come through and create some
designs in the parts that I wanted. That first swipe was a vertical swipe getting all of the
colors running through it, and the second swipe I decided to swipe the colors over one another. I'm
still thinking where do I want these swipes to go? Do I want to cross any over each other? Do I want
them to be all separate? These are all thoughts you should be asking yourself when you're making
your painting. It takes me a long time sometimes to figure out exactly where I want the swipes
to go. For this one, I decided to swipe just along that edge and then carry it through, and I
dipped the tip of my palette knife in so that I could carry the color on the tip through as well.
That sometimes can help you if you're swiping over another swipe to really drag the colors along and
make it look almost seamless. I knew I wanted to swipe in this corner, and I wanted to follow the
same line and curvature of the previous swipe, and after each time you're not seeing it but I
will stand and look at it for maybe 20-30 seconds, sometimes a minute, trying to figure out how
it's making me feel and what it looks like and what I want it to look like. I decided at this
point that I wanted to add a few more lines and designs of interest, so I'm just dragging my
finger through and waiting to quote unquote wreck it after really helps you control the design and I
like that. I used my finger and just did some very simple lines through it. If I would have used
the head scratcher there would have been many, many more designs within this and already the
colors themselves and the swipes were already busy and so I like that I didn't have a ton of
extra design going on in the negative space. Now it's time to tilt this out and I swear I feel
like I am flipping a pizza every time I do these, and as I edit the video back I also realize how
close I get to my top camera. I am so lucky that I haven't actually tilted a painting into the
camera yet. So already I'm loving the magenta, the purple is the perfect shade, it's a little bit
muted, the yellow and the orange are the perfect pops of color, and the magenta has really taken
the center stage on this one. I think what I like most about this painting besides the colors are
that it is balanced, it's really balanced, and there I am spinning it like a pizza. I'm loving
the designs in this one and I was really happy with how this one came out. So after I get the
design back the way that I want it, then I have to take a look and see do I want to add any extra
lines, do I want to change the composition at all, and I'm looking to connect lines together to add
color where I want it and to really make it feel like it's one cohesive piece. Sometimes this
process takes much, much, much longer than you think it would but it makes it worth it in the
end. So here it is in the light and I love it, the beautiful magenta areas, the purple is just
perfect, the colors blended really nice together. Super happy about how this one came out. I am very
happy with this one, I love the colors, the yellow that I used was Amsterdam's yellow gold and I feel
like it fit with the orange better. I just feel like it just matched this color scheme perfectly,
the turquoise blue, super happy with that, the yellow lacing and the swirls, I just feel like
this one is really balanced to me even though it's really chaotic and just super colorful. I
am so happy with this one, I'm definitely going to use this color scheme again. Alright,
thank you for watching, happy painting, bye.
