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.
This is a very soothing colour pallet - but then again, I also like greens and blues.
ReplyDeleteTB, 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.
DeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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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