Hi my loves, welcome back to a slight rebrand of my sketchbook series.
Different name but same idea, where we're basically trying to keep up a regular drawing
habit together, by seeing what we can do in our sketchbooks today with an hour or less.
Today, I wanted to have some fun with colour palettes.
I'm looking to figure out more of a signature colour scheme to my own work, and I thought
the best way to do that would be to experiment with some existing palettes and see what worked
best for me and my work.
So I'm doing a typical kind of quick landscape for me, using a colour scheme I ripped directly
from the work of and amazing oil painter called Pam Carter, who does these stunning, colourful
paintings of Scottish landscapes.
I'll leave her info below, you have to check her work out.
I'm actually hoping to buy one or two of her prints in the future because her work and
her use of colour just blow me away.
Now, I have to say, as much as I love how this painting I'm doing turned out, and as
much as I enjoyed using these colours, it has made me realise that I prefer to use more
muted colours, with maybe one standout colour, so I think that's what I'll try next.
But it's always fun to just give something like this a go.
When you use an existing colour palette, you can spend more time focusing on looking at
the value in your whatever your painting, so rather than thinking about what colour
has to go where, I'm looking at which areas are the lightest and darkest, and which colours
on my palette would fit that value best.
You can do this with any reference- and I'll have the particular reference I used below,
and any colour palette; one you come up with yourself or one that you rip from another
painting, for the sake of studying it.
You can also just search colour palette on Pinterest and get some really cool colour
combos. to work with.
It's a great way to experiment with colour and to get yourself to really look at values
and the relationship between them.
How many times have I said colour now?
So this took about half an hour.
I paint landscapes a lot so I do think I was able to get through this one quite quickly,
but as a warm-up, a way to get a page filled up in my sketchbook and a sneaky bit of value
study squeezed in there too...
I think it's a great way to spend less than an hour working on your art.
I do apologise also for the lighting in this video, it's quite a stormy day- I don't know
if you can hear the rain right now.
But it rained, the sun came out, it rained, the sun came out so I think it gets up and
down- the lighting in this video but hopefully you can still see things properly.
And also the focus on these shots will change slightly.
I was using a very shallow depth of field and some parts are in focus, some parts aren't
but I think that you get the picture.
And hopefully, you've enjoyed this painting as much as I enjoyed making it.
I thin kit just looks really stunning and again, I would love for you to check out Pam
Carter's work because she really is something special.
Anyway, thanks for joining me for this sketchbook session, I'll let the rest of the video play.
I hope you feel inspired to do a little something creative today as well.
And I'll see you next week for the next one.
Bye!