….even tho the entries in paintbook were only meant to be background colour guides for a larger, more complicated thing, these met with ooos and aahs in “some quarters” so I thought it wise to do them “properly” as a finished piece….
….wasn’t till after I’d finished that I realised they look like ol’ peggy square throw rugs crochet by “your nan”…..
…(possibly explains their “popularity”)….
…(297 x 420 on reclaimed ply)….
…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….
…the same as the last post…
…except pastel shades on a dark grey background….
…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!…)….
…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….
….out with the gold (see previous post)….
…and in with the nukes…
…(boom)…
….(mushroom cloud)….
….(mushroom cloud)….
…(bask in the radiation)….
….hmmmm…
….upon reflection….
…maybe not….
…grandiose plans for huge Flutterdie/Ship Eye/Concentric Rainbow piece…
…(probably shelved indefinitely!)…
…(what happens in sketchbook, sometimes has to stay in sketchbook)….
…not sure what the last word on shadowing will be…
…but I ‘m sticking to a firm maybe at this stage….
….pre yesterday’s template piece….
…3 days later….
…outside the sketchbook pieces….
…to the right is a pre-template-ruled-line-felt-marker job…to the left is a post-template-with-new-improved-skull-size-standardisation-colour-pencil job….
….no, I won’t be making enough to paper the hallway….
…(or will I?)….
Bored with a record shop. 