Will the Meeting Come to Order

With Richard's warning about too little paint, I made way too much. I should have painted another. My gamut was a triangle and included a green and a magenta, but I had trouble including both. The green was easy, but not the other. I can't wait to get comfortable with this way to achieve color harmony. Great lesson!

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Comment by Nancy Sands on June 27, 2012 at 10:50: Thanks, Casey. I like your suggestions and think I'll go back and give that magenta a try. Maybe it will licen it up a bit. I find all kinds of restrictions difficult but worth the struggle...whether it is a restricted pallet or a specific time limit. Hope your printer gets well. :-)

Comment by Casey Toussaint on June 27, 2012 at 5:09: oops - the purple trees were on another painting. I wasn't quite awake when I wrote this.

Comment by Casey Toussaint on June 26, 2012 at 19:43: Maybe you could have added it to the shadows in pure form for a little broken color, and a tint of it in the sunny portions. I've been working on a series of limited palette paintings and every time I have to struggle to get my head around the restricted color and paint things like your purple trees, but in the end they seem to work better than if I paint with a full palette. I guess it keeps me from adding the wrong colors at the end, when I tend to paint a little fast and loose. The color gamut is even more restrictive, but right now my printer is on the blink, which makes it awkward to use.

Comment by Nancy Sands on June 26, 2012 at 18:37: I think you are right, Casey. The painting seemed a little dull and in need of more interesting colors which is why I was hoping to pull in the magenta...like adding a little spice. I wonder if this gamut mask idea becomes second nature and if Richard does this with all his paintings. It really was a struggle. thank you for your help and your kind comment.

Comment by Casey Toussaint on June 26, 2012 at 17:08: I like this one a lot Nancy. I think the point of the gamut mask is not to include discordant colors, with no obligation to include colors that don't work for you. That was the part of this exercise that had my head spinning at first! The composition definitely pulls the viewer into the distance - well done.

Comment by Nancy Sands on June 25, 2012 at 19:06: Dania, thank you so much. That lead into the distance was something I hoped to achieve on this one. I'm glad you think it worked. :-)

Comment by Nancy Sands on June 25, 2012 at 19:04: Thank you Patricia. I really enjoyed those rock figures. They kept reminding me of people in a meeting with the chairman of the board leading. :-))). thank you too for your kind comments.

Comment by Dania Bree on June 24, 2012 at 16:45: Nancy,

I like the way you cropped and enhanced the composition. It has a lot of depth and the lighting really adds the the atmosphere and step you through and into the painting. Nice job !

Comment by Patricia Genever on June 24, 2012 at 16:16: An interesting name for your painting... Yes indeed your rocks are speaking to each other... :))

Nancy, I like your values, aerial perspective and also your green bush... Well done!!

Comment by Nancy Sands on June 24, 2012 at 15:40: A big HI, Li. I'm so glad you like it. I didn't think I would have the time to do this month's, but I squeezed it in at the last minute. It was a really good challenge. After all the prep work, it really was good working with a color purpose. I love your's, by the way.