For experiment #3, I chose a photo with muted winter colors.
For this one, my first step was to add guidelines, just to see if I find them helpful.
They do help me visualize the width of the stripes as a whole pattern, which I like. I followed the same procedure for filling them with color as I did with my first experiment.
One thing I've discovered is that if I want to get really fussy about which color I choose with the color picker, I can enlarge the image 800 times. Then I can select from the individual pixels of color.
This was helpful because I want to approximate the shades of the color bands my eye sees in the photo. This was quicker than making multiple random guesses with the color picker.
Here's what I ended up with
To do something different. I copied it and flipped the copy vertically. Then I put the two together.
Here it is with eight of these together pasted together to make simple horizontal stripes.
It kind of reminds me of a button-down shirt Dan used to have.
So that's a simple way to take an irregular stripe pattern and give it a sense of symmetry.
4 comments:
This is a very soothing colour pallet - but then again, I also like greens and blues.
TB, I agree. This is what I typically think of as a "nature's color pallet." And then there are those sunrises and sunsets, and all the bright and cheerful colors from flowers. The natural creation never ceases to amaze me.
I wonder if it has to do with colours as a general "background" versus colours as spots or events - for example, it is not as if we always live in a world of oranges and yellows.
I do think that has something to do with it. In my mind, I have sets of colors that seem like the define the seasons, for example, because they are predominant. Like green in summer. I don't think it was until I started doing the color palettes that I realized how many other colors are summer colors too. What I like is that it's giving me another basis for color selection, besides color theory.
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