Bring The Color Scheme Game outdoors, even in the winter.
Fire Hydrant, Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC
When filming one of the videos, Twenty Steps to Better Drawing, for the upcoming series of online painting demos, I found myself beside this fire hydrant after my third round of twenty steps. The fire hydrant wasn’t yellow. It was a fabulous combination of bright blue, red and green. For a quick application of color, I opted to use a limited palette with a basic color scheme of Near Complements, Yellow and Red/Violet. I wanted to make a strong statement using the extremes of color value. Reality doesn’t matter to me.
Sketchbook, en plein air sketch: Fire Hydrant on Haywood Road, Asheville, NC – drawn first in ink with a fountain pen, followed by washes of watercolor. The sketchbook is a moleskin sketchbook with slippery paper surface.
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