A pairing of pistachio and dark chocolate sounds like a delicious and indulgent late night snack, but when your add donkey grey and taupe , the first impression of the four colour combination appears rather lacklustre. I've always thought of taupe as dull and bland. Some research suggests that taupe is now a very popular colour in interior design and is considered to be associated with luxury and sophistication! I can see that it fits rather well between the donkey grey and dark chocolate as an intermediate shade. If you haven't been following, I am currently attempting the global #the100dayproject, which means I spend a short amount of time on a daily art practice of my choice. I have chosen to interpret the colour prompts published each week by Este Macleod. I admit this one did not really excite me at the beginning , so I did a quick collage from paper torn from magazine pages. This helped me to see the different values of the colours and how they looked together. After
4/#the100dayproject What a great colour combination - some favourite greens with a touch of mustard! Add in Payne's grey and then in my head, there was a forest.... trees, grasses, plants After the first day blending some water colours, and matching my threads. I wasn't exactly sure I might do over the next week - some leaf studies? some collages based on the bush? .... Luckily, I have a great stash of unfinished projects. A piece of abandoned canvas with splotches of green seemed to jump out of the drawer to be used. And then there was the piece of calico which had blank ink marks - Once it was torn into strips, brightened up with a bit of water colour, the small strips, ended up making perfect tree trunks, 5/#the100dayproject Above moss and grass, Nature marked towering tree trunks Forest colours sing. The next few days were a bit like a Mr Squiggle challenge - making something of the pre-made marks and splotches or ignoring and avoiding them totally and a few m