Bring The Color Scheme Game outdoors, even in the winter.
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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