Rainbow Art Journal – Yellow and Purple

Since I was in the yellow section of my Rainbow Art Journal, I wanted to include a page that was about complementary colours.  In this case, that meant yellow and purple.  I have also been using this art journal to record the art materials I use so this page was created using three Daler Rowney Aquafine watercolours: cadmium yellow, gamboge, and purple lake.  I got the illustration to the point that the figure was complete and the background was entirely yellow.  Thinking that the yellow background was too bland and that the figure was floating in too much empty space, I added the purple plant forms.  I think perhaps I went a bit overboard and now the background is too busy – and the purple a bit too dominant in a page that is supposed to be predominantly yellow.  Nevermind that I strayed from my intentions because I quite like the illustration regardless.

 

Rainbow Art Journal – Orange and Blue

It seems like eons since I last cracked open my Rainbow themed Art Journal and created anything in its pages.  It’s definitely been a good few months.  Thanks to a Snow Day, however, I found myself with an extra ration of free time so I decided to produce another piece in the orange section of my art journal – which is only the third section – I am really not making great progress with this project.  As we all know, orange and blue are complementary colours so I decided to play around with that palette for this page.  The subject is another one of my reworkings of one of my older illustrations in a different medium.  I much prefer the proportions of the face in the ink and watercolour original but I like the strength of the colours in this piece.  I do enjoy the asymmetrical composition too.  I will be glad to see the back of the orange pages of this art journal, however.  That should motivate me to keep working in it.