Paula On "Yellow"

The above is a little line sketch I did, with the objects colorized in yellow, using monochromatic values and hues. I changed up the backgrounds, though, trying some patterns and different colors to see how it would look. A fun little excercise.

My struggles with yellow are in that I tend to go 'green' with it. Someone pointed that out to me many, many years ago, saying that art directors get testy when one's yellow takes on a green tone. I've always remembered that, yet I still struggle with that aspect of working with the color.

Yellow

For our "yellow" topic I decide to do one of my favourite subjects, a bird. This one is called a yellow-breasted chat, and I've put him on a berry branch. This is also the new header for my other blog.

here's a detail

Yellow

Here's some fresh yellow citrus fruits for you!

Age group

The kids in my illustrations usually looks about 5-7 years old. I made an effort in this illustration to make the kids look a bit older. Closer to 10 years old. I think it's difficult to draw older kids. Maybe I just need to practice it more...

Jannie's Color Palette

This is one of my favorite color palettes recently. I've been using these colors alot for my 21 Day Creative Challenge:

Paula On Color Palettes

This week we're talking about what color palettes we use and do we have a favorite, etc. I can't say that I have a "favorite" palette but I do use some colors consistently in my illustrations. I like to use pinks/oranges, blues/purples as a highlight, particularly the pink and blue shown in the drawing of a dragon, below. I sometimes do a lot of blending and building up of color on my drawings using a digital chalk brush in Painter X. I'll layer very light colors and top off middle-grounds with a pink. Shadows I top off with blue. I feel it gives it a warmth that I won't get if I just use a darker color of whatever the base color is I'm highlighting/shading.

I also like to experiment with using a mono-chromatic scheme (below). It pushes me to think outside of my comfort zone and try something new. Here, I've used the same dragon image from above, but used a mono-chromatic scheme in a yellow-green.

Color Palette

I thought it would be fun to see everybody's favorite color palette, so that's the topic this week. When I look at my illustrations, I love the pieces that has green and blues as the main colors, like this one. I use a lot of bright, warm colors - and I love all kinds of green with yellow in it.

Facical Expressions

I just finished reading a book about the master of facial expressions, Normal Rockwell. I have this painting of his hanging in my studio for inspiration. When I was a kid the phone company used this same piece on the cover of the telephone book (although, I'm pretty sure it was originally published as a Post cover). I remember spending a lot of time studying all the faces. I didn't know who Norman Rockwell was but I was drawn to all the animated faces, I can almost hear that guy at the bottom guffawing. Hmmm, I wonder if my parents were ever concerned that their kid spent hours staring at the phone book?