Dear readers,
Today I finished the fourth piece (didn’t put it in a deep drawer as I said yesterday…). Only put two crayon stripes on it. Done.
I am reading a book right now, from Elizabeth Gilbert, who says: ‘finished is better than good’.
I’m sure this is not always true, but it also rings a bell. You can procrastinate finishing something until the cows come home, but that is not going to help very much. You are giving yourself the signal: it should be perfect.
And: perfect is the enemy of done (I heard a while ago).
The other thing that I did today is making a start with the project for lesson 5 of Jane Davies’ color class. For this class I have to make a ton of swatches of different colors. Maybe 100 or more. After that I am going to make color combinations: to find out how colors work together, and which combinations I like.
That is a real nice exercise, after all those very interesting and probably necessary but a bit tiresome values- and saturation-exercises.
And all below I post the family of four that I made the last two weeks.
Have a nice day, thanks for stepping by!
Simone
Yes, indeed, Dotty: clerical, that’s what it was. Not exactly my favourite…
Simone, number 4 didn’t go to the drawer after all! Those two crayon stripes look just right : ) Wonderful to see the family of four all together; you and I have both been working on such families. Don’t you just love the interaction of the pieces in a series?
Thank you once again for posting exercises from your Jane Davies’ color class lesson. I was going to ask if you were labeling the swatches with info with what colors you used, and then I saw that on at least one sheet you had done so. I like the idea that once you’ve created your swatches you can play with them to see how they work together and which combinations you like.
Hi Dotty!
Yes, I tried making ‘notes’ on the swatches at first, but it made a mess (wet paint etcetera), and it was just too much work, administrating all these colour mixes. So I guess when I want a certain colour I probably have to find out all over again where it came from.
It is more fun to just paint along, and try out colours, in stead of keeping track of all the tubes where they came from;-)
Bye!
Simone, I’m laughing that you gave up quickly on annotating the colors—I like your style! I agree that it’d probably be way more fun just to paint the swatches and skip the clerical stuff. I remember doing a tiny bit of this at one point. I think the idea was to take a very limited # of colors and mix up a bunch of combinations and permutations. I didn’t persist with the task but did learn, from the very few swatches I did, how much possibility there is from a limited palette. However, the focus of your exercise, i.e. to put different colors beside each other and see what combinations you like sounds much more appealing to me.