Playing with Red (Sketchbook Ideas #13)

Continuing in my New Year’s sketchbook warm up series, I’ve explored the color red. Sometimes it can tilt toward orange, sometimes towards pink or purple, sometimes toward blue or brown. I’ve found that it’s hard to get a red red that reads only red!

Red can mean different things on different occasions, everything from anger to Valentine’s day. It can also evoke blood, or warning, or stop. It can read happy or scary, and lots in between, what does “seeing red” mean to you?

In this post you can see some of my recent meditations on the color red. Give it a try. What would you do with red? Tomato soup?