Paintbook 57

…so I thought to myself…

…what if, instead of the colours radiating out from a point, I just jumbled them up….

…random like….

….hmmm…

…random like….

Paintbook 56

…the same as the last post…

…except pastel shades on a dark grey background….

Paintbook 55

…a bunch of squares…

…it’s a bunch, right?….not a flock or a herd or something?….

…(…committed a few of these background colour test patterns to paintbook… in case I mislay the colour pencil 10 minute jams I posted awhile back…my “studio” is a mess!…)….

Paintbook 54

…flies/eyes…

…..or, if you will, eyes/flies….

Paintbook 53

…I can highly recommend the three day break from posting…

…but don’t try this at home….

…it will cost you a fortune in eye glasses and treatments for your repetitive strain injury…..

Sketchy LXXIII

….up to date update from the sketch book…

…film at…erm…

…haven’t made a film for awhile….

…maybe I should look into that…

Paintbook 51/52

…um…

…the last few posts from paintbook have been exploring an octopus motif using a palette of 14 colours, 7 “primary” and 7 “pastel”, with a bit of black, white and gold for highlighty bits….

…the general rule being the octopus colour has the corresponding pastel colour for the “suckers” and is three places away from the background colour and outline , “pastel” colour in the spectrum…

…i.e. red tentacle/pink “suckers”…skip orange, yellow, green….blue background and blue “pastel” outline….

…the first “swatch” (2 posts ago) explored all the background/outline combinations with a static tentacle/”sucker” pairing….

….then I wondered…

…what about the rest of the tentacle colour/”pastel” colour variants on all the background colours (not including same colour tentacle/”sucker” with same colour background/outline)….

…fuck….

…that’s where wonderin’ gets you….

Paintbook 49

…I have a thing for all the different colour schemes of the images I make…

…and rather than laboriously painting the whole damn lot to satisfy my curiosity….

…I find a “swatch” is a useful device to purge any potentially obsessive behaviour….

…(doesn’t stop me scheming to scratch the itch properly though)….

Paintbook 48

….so I wondered if I could squish ALLLL the colours onto one octopus design….

….hmmm….

…not quite….

Paintbook 46

…tightening the “concept”…

…(and you can see the gold in this one)….