This is another limited palette painting. It's very very fun to do many and line
them all up and see how similar and different they appear all at the same time.
In the beginning during the "lay in" stage it's easy to say oh I'll never get
the colors to pop or stand out but the longer you create you "soup" (the
combination of colors you're mixing on your palette) the more the tiniest
differentiations start to appear and add definition to your canvas. I am now
convinced that this is the way to learn.
1. You realize that a painting is about the canvas not the image or the photograph
2 You are striving toward harmony
3. You are actively experiencing at a very simple and effective level the differences between darker or lighter and the other important question, warmer or cooler, or brighter or duller.
Your mind is not confounded but a vast array of colors with so many different values.
If you must add more colors, wait until you've laid in the main idea to your satisfaction and use the 4th color carefully to enhance.
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