Collecting Your Own Color Palettes
How do you figure out what colors you want to use when you begin a painting?
There are many ways to collect color palette ideas and here are a few I use:
Look at special art books that have suggestions for you.
Take photos of colors you love when you’re out and about and put those in a special photo album in your phone. It could be flowers, clothing, home interiors.
Choose a color palette with a slight twist from an older painting.
Choose colors you haven’t used in a long time to bring variety to your work.
Create your own unique, customized resource book that you can refer to over and over and every color palette in the book you love because you’ve chosen it.
WAIT…that sounds awesome..
I agree, so I just made a new YouTube video showing you my exact steps on creating them.
Basically, you tear color sections out of magazines or old books, arrange three colors you like and then add an accent color.
Just to make my color palette books look professional and be really usable, I glue my color swatches in a 5x5” white hard bound book I got on Amazon.
One of these books can hold 12 different color palettes.
And just think, you could have a book for neutrals, a book for reds, a book for blues, etc.
So the next time you’re out of ideas for what colors you want in your painting, grab one of your books, find a page you want to use, and off you go.
Click HERE to watch the YouTube video.
You’re going to love doing this.
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