Sketchbook BingeFest: Color/Pattern with Faith Evan Sills

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Sketchbook BingeFest 

Gathering Color and Pattern

Wow, these projects are flying. I had a hard time deciding to pick an image for this color pattern project. Faith led us through looking at a photo---any sort, she used a muted home decor photo to create a page of patterns and mixed colors suggested by the photo. And adding designs reminiscent of textures from the photo.

BUT, 

I still have these three palettes I'm trying to use up of three basic yellow, blue, crimson and some brown up.

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Going through my mail, I saw this great photo from a blog I follow on dolls, Antique Lilac..Mary Boer shared some vacation photos...and my favorite was this one of fishing bouys along a dock here on her blog:

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She does fabulous handmade dolls and scenes along with detailed settings. Her dolls were on the seashore plus she added a few maritime photos.

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HER PHOTO: definitely had color and pattern for inspiration.  I choose three bright rounds brushes and one flat brush and planned on working from my limited palettes only.

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As suggested, I broke down the patterns and shapes into basic color swatches. Working in watercolors in the sketchbook. The paper is very tight and smooth with small speckles in it, and holds up fairly well with water for a thin paper.

The blues all began with Cerulean and then adding Crimson, a bit of yellow or Burnt Umber to change the depth or tint. Grays were combination of Crimson, Yellow, Cerulean.

This was very quick....maybe 12-15 minutes.

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Turning this on it's side you can lose the actual imagery and it becomes more pattern. I worked quite wet, since we were speeding along and the watercolors definitely bled into each other. 

I also drew on a second page within a defined rectangle. Worked from a quick sketch and painted in the background before and around the bouys. Here I am going for a bit more realism, because I just really like the repetition of the image.

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Keeping in mind this is sketchbook and not a finished project I went for some shading and again layers of color. Lesson...breaking down the idea to simple shapes and forms. I managed to keep the bright contrast here with the white on the bouys.]

This was equally quick, only planned out by doing the backgrounds first.

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 Special thanks to Faith. I may try her approach again when contemplating a large piece, making lines and shapes of colors to match a desired project. Limiting a palette is always interesting...and these pieces with only the four colors are definitely a challenge. 

Everyday a new project,

 I wonder what tomorrow will bring!

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