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?
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Hello Polly!
I am really enjoying your blog.
Thank you very much!
Lisa -
Some of your best work, in my opinion. Love the color choices and love your commitment to all things good. ❤️
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Amazing!!
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[…] A couple days ago I posted some new red work of mine done in my artist journal. It is a good practice to work in your sketchbook on a prompt you assign yourself, until you have clarity of what you want to paint. First I scribbled, then I experimented with circles, but working in red opened my flood gates! I want to paint pastels in red! […]
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