20210310: Lunar Blue and Quinacridone Deep Gold Color Study

Been struggling with this piece I’m trying to do. I just don’t have the knowledge or skill yet. So I’ve got lots of false starts. But I learned from the Paint Yourself Happy challenge that you should never throw out false starts, because you might be able to turn them into something else. So I’m not going to post those, but as part of a breather I’m taking from “making art™,” I made this color study of two colors that I love as individuals, just to see how they would work with each other. Daniel Smith’s Lunar Blue and Quinacridone Deep Gold.

I don’t hate it. In the last panel, I liberally dusted the reticulated paints with a Himalayan salt grinder. Might use that technique in a field of flowers some day.

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