 Hello and welcome to Monet Café. I'm artist Susan Jenkins. We're gonna have some fun today and if you're new here please subscribe and hit that little bell icon to be notified of future videos. One of the most common questions I get from budding artist is how do you get more color vibrancy in your paintings? Well if you've ever asked that question you'll be excited about this lesson. Let's get started. I often like to paint different color palette schemes with a variation on a similar theme, as in these five paintings of a little trail carving its way into the background of trees. And we're going to learn about a creative way and a neat tool that can help you to get very creative with new color palettes that you may have never tried. So here we go with a very fun, colorful and educational lesson. Okay so here's just a few examples of some paintings that I've done. I'm calling it color palette roulette and you'll see why when I show you the little tool that I'm going to use, but it's a great way to loosen up and get inspired perhaps to use color palettes you've never used before. And it's also a neat way just to break out of patterns and habits that we typically get into. So it's a lot of fun but these are some of the different ones that I use based on this little tool called Paletton. It's a, I'll show you on the screen, but it's a website that you can go to. Now unfortunately I have had some some of my European subscribers and patreon members say that they they couldn't get it where they were. Some of them said they could so hopefully you can get it where you are. But I'm going to show you a quick little demonstration of how to use it and then why it's really neat to just play this color wheel roulette and have fun. Here we go. Here's a quick little tutorial on Paletton and how it works, but stay tuned I do have painting demos coming next. Here we are on the paletton.com website. Keep in mind that if you don't have access to this and whatever country you may be living with you can literally follow along with us and sort of do the same thing on the color wheel. This main big wheel of color you see over here is very similar in layout to a regular color wheel so the concepts are the same regardless. But if you have access to this I'm going to show you some really neat things. What is the most basic color palette? That's how it begins. It's called a monochromatic or one color palette and let me introduce you to this little section up here above the color wheel with some color palette choices. So in the monochromatic it comes on to this by default or automatically when you enter this website and it's got a one color palette selection kind of right here in this red area, the primary color. Now we can change this by clicking this little bubble here and dragging it around to whatever monochromatic color we would like to use. Over to the right side of the screen you will see the value display and we basically have five values. Pardon the little numbers that keep popping up. They're the color numbers I'm assuming. We've got a basic middle value for the background here and up here and then we have four different values ranging from light to dark. That's all that value means anyway is the lightness or darkness of that particular color. So we have it displayed this way up here and then in the box we've got four larger swatches, two lighter values here and two a little bit darker values here. We have a reversed image of it in the corner. These are basically different ways for you to view it. All right so and once again we can just spin this around to whatever color we want to choose. Now I would go on to the next selection which is right next to the monochromatic one which is called adjacent colors. You see these three adjacent colors but before I do that there's actually another choice that's kind of right between these two. Let me show you what I mean. We're going to go back to the monochromatic and I'm going to click something. If you can see where I'm wiggling my mouse up here I'm going to click. I wish I could figure out how to make my mouse big all that. There it goes. We're going to click add complementary. Click. What did it just do? It basically took that red color that's here and it added the complement. All that means is the color that's on the opposite side of the color wheel. So the complement to red is green and we can also once again spin this around for any monochromatic color with its complement and notice the complement is the one that's the smaller example right down here. All right so that is a complementary color palette. Now we'll move on to the next one which is adjacent colors and in this example there are three colors. Adjacent colors is also called analogous colors often on a color wheel. We can once again spin this middle one around to make our own adjacent color selections and we can also click add complementary to see the complement to the adjacent colors. So once again adjacent colors are just colors that are next to kind of in close proximity to each other on the color wheel. All right let's take that complementary color away again and let's go to the next color palette choice which is a triad. Now we still have three colors in this one but notice they are in the shape of a triangle. I'll show you later how we can actually control how wide this triangle is and really customize this if you would like to. Again here we go. We can spin this around to whatever triadic color palette you'd like to use. Now let's go to the next one which is a tetrad. It's four. This one's more of a rectangle. We could also make it like a square. I'll show you again in a minute how you can customize this and again we can spin this around with our tetrad color selection. Now notice this one does not have a complementary option because the choices are already compliments to each other. I think it's the same with this one. Oh no with the I'm sorry with the triad one we can add a complementary color to it. All right so the other option we've got four options here. This last option is like a settings. It looks like little gears and cogs and wheels and what we can do here is we can do freestyle. Okay so that means you can control this. You can hold the shift key and move the colors individually. This is how I said you can customize it. Let's say I want to make this tetrad arrangement a little wider not so adjacent colors here so I can hold my shift key and I can move my colors a little wider. Whoops and when you see that it goes across to the value side. You just hold your uh I'll show you how to control that in a minute. This has to do with value but when you go right outside the wheel it'll pop right back. Now I'm going to make this one a little wider more like a square color palette. Okay and when I let go of the shift key it will once again let me go to this main one and choose it with them all bound together. All right so that's pretty interesting. So now that's how you can do a lot of the selecting. However there's some other interesting options right up here. First of all we've got a reset button which is really kind of nice. If you've played around for a long time and you're like oh my gosh I've made a mess of things I want to just start over. You can click reset. It'll take you right back to that monochromatic beginning selection. Now here's what I think is the fun part. Is to truly play color palette roulette is to let the computer decide. It's this randomize button up here. All right so if we click randomize it gives you four options. Now I'm not going to go into what all of these are but you can click them and have the computer play around with some color palettes. Now that one I definitely wouldn't do. That's just dark. Now look at that one. Isn't that interesting? If you wanted to just play around pull out those colors and values. You can have a lot of fun. I'm going to show you in a minute how to control value a little bit too. Let's click this one and click more and just keep playing around with it. It's really really a lot of fun. Oh that's kind of neat. Kind of this one's kind of like a high key color palette. Notice there's not a lot of dark values. That is a nice segue into another thing that we can control and view in this color palette picker on Paletton which is value. Value again simply means lightness to darkness. Let me close this out. So right now we can see there's no dark values in here. Now notice this middle section. Once again it will change if you go to the middle area. Notice how all of the value selections are all scrunched up here together in a lighter side of value. Now you can see here the lighter values are over here on this left side and the darker values are more over in this area. This side has to I don't want to get too deep here. This side has more to do with chroma. This is more a neutrality over here. But let's go back. Let's reset it again and I'm going to show you. But it's a high key color palette because these are all on the light side. I actually think that's kind of pretty. I'd like to try to create a painting with that. All right so let's reset it. Once we reset it we see the values have a nice even distribution here. We've got the middle value right here which is this value in the main big square. We've got the two lighter values which are these two to the top part here kind of to the upper left and then we which would be these two here. And we've got the two darker values down in the bottom area here which would be these over here. I hope your computer screens or phones are big enough to see where I'm moving my mouse. All right now if you want to adjust that it's set automatically by default to go to this kind of really nice distribution of value. But let's say you know I want to do triad color palette. Let's click it here. I want to customize it and make these not so tight not so adjacent. So I'm going to hold the shift key and I'm going to go a little wider with my triad. Yeah that's what I want right there. Now I really want to do this more high key which means lighter values. I don't want there to be many dark values in this and that usually happens when it's a bright bright sunshiny day and it drowns out all the darker values. So what I'm going to do I'm going to hold my shift key and I'm going to move my values. Notice now watch the lightest value in the right hand side. It's going to get super white. You see that? Now the next one is the one that's right next to it on the left side of it. It's getting brighter too. You see that? Now this is the middle value one. You watch the big red square. I'm using the red just to give you guys something to relate to. Notice how light that gotten value. Now you see we're still left with these two darker values over here. I'm still holding the shift key. I'm going to go back to the middle. It'll change back to this and I'm going to move them to make that lighter. Now we've still got that little dark guy right there. Let's move him. Move him up here and now we've got a really nice high key painting. Isn't that nice? And you could do the same thing on the opposite side. I could take everything over further to the darker side. Say it's a really dark. You want to create some mood. It's a dark street scene or something like that and that's a nice low key painting. So let me take it back over here to the high key just because I liked that one. It was kind of cool. And then I am going to spin it around a little bit. Okay so that's kind of fun. Okay so we've got a nice high key. I'll make that one a little bit darker. Nice high key painting. Now if I go back to the main color wheel all you have to do is move your cursor or your mouse from here to the middle to change these and back to the color wheel. So we're going to take this main one and I'm going to spin it around. I can choose or let it by default or kind of glued together choose the ones that I have already set. So I'm seeing a lot that oh that I really like. I just really like that. That's so pretty. All right so now that you know a little bit more about how to use paletton and hopefully if you didn't have this option you followed along somewhat to your color wheel with your color wheel. By the way the color wheel the pocket color wheel I use has so many definitions on it and information. It's really really a great tool. So whether you use this or the real color wheel let's go back to the lesson and have some fun. And now the fun begins. In this lesson I'm using mixed media paper but you can really use whatever you have. This is not a medium specific lesson. You could do this with watercolor. I actually will be doing an 8 by 10 format on this mixed media paper and I'll be doing a watercolor underpainting a complementary underpainting and then applying pastel. Okay so here is my 8 by 10 format. Here is my triad color wheel palette scheme that I'm going to be using and again I've got the same idea or theme as some of these other paintings I'm doing. It's just some trees a road. The trees are on different levels. Some more trees in the background and a further distant either field or mountains or trees or something back there. Okay so same idea a little bit different format and we're going to just kind of go with the general rule of thirds here which you know you want your horizon line up here and you don't always have to use this composition strategy but it's a good one to use. All right I know I've got a tree that I'm going to have my bigger tree. I'm going to try to exaggerate some of these trees here. Okay then I'm going to have another tree that's a little further away from that tree. Let's make this one kind of a little further. He's going to be a little bigger than that. Okay so you see how loose these can be. I'll make this one even a little bigger. Okay and now we've got our road which is basically just a road that kind of comes in. I'm going to make it kind of wide this time. It comes in goes back in the distance and that's pretty much all you need there. Okay now we're going to have I might curve it around a little bit more this way. Now we're going to have our distant trees back here. Some sort of basic tree shape and then we'll have kind of some mountains or something back there. So that's it. That's pretty easy right? All right so I'm not doing a wet under color. I mean a wash you know because if I add too much water to this this paper is probably going to buckle quite a bit and your trees you know you can keep them very very loose and energetic. As a matter of fact that kind of helps with it. I wanted my tree to feel rather loose and free. Okay so I'm even going to do let me have a little dark down in here. This one I'm going to make it just a tad lighter back here. Some of this is going to get covered up but it doesn't matter. This is really kind of to set the mood and have some fun. Okay so this tree is going to be a little more back here like this. A little higher. Probably need to get this one lower and adjust my road a little bit. Okay and then I'm going to have these background trees won't be quite as dark as this and so I'm going to gradually come down and lighten it up a little bit. Maybe like right in here somewhere. So here we got these background trees or mountains or whatever they are and I do like to make my trees kind of go up on the edges rather than slope off. It's just kind of more interesting like that. And these things even though I draw in my basic shape they kind of evolve as they go along. All right let's go ahead and get in. Well I'm going to wait on this to dry. I'm going to go ahead and get in whatever color I'm going to use for the the grasses. I think I will add another layer of some distant trees back in here that'll be a little darker in value but again I'm going to wait on that a little bit. So because things that are flat are typically lighter in value because the sun's shining directly on them. I'm actually going to use a bigger brush for this. Also use the biggest brush you can get away with. It's going to force you force your strokes to be really nice and loose and fun because this is the underpainting. You know we can tighten things up later if we need to if we even want to and it's okay if I kind of blend those together there. So I'm just kind of stroking this along back here having some fun maybe gradually darkening it up as I get closer to the foreground. Get a little more water and by the way I'm just dipping this brush in water and then if it's too wet I dab it in the on the paper towel I've got beneath me. Let me grab some of this color back here again where it's light. See that's already kind of dry and see this mixed media paper you know it really works pretty good. It's fun. This is fun and that's part of the goal of this is to have some fun. Loosen up oh my gosh I have to tell myself that enough finally over all these years started to learn to play and just have a good time. It's okay if we add some of this other orange kind of in these trees here. All right now since that other part's kind of probably dry I think I may add these this magenta and red color here maybe for some trees that are a little bit well they'd probably be larger back in here and just another third row of trees and then these lighter ones be pushed back behind there it gives the composition a little bit more interest. All right so now for the for the sky I think I'll make a nice drippy sky I'm just gonna make kind of a maybe this might be too dark in value I want it light and I can control the lightness with water color by how much water I put in it however if I put too much water in it it's going to get too runny and it's going to make that paper warp. Okay so I'm just getting some of this yellow in here and I'm gonna let it just drip down in between these again you might notice I've been kind of strategically planning where my paints would go based on got a little orange in there but that's okay I kind of like it based on the drying time. I think I do I'm gonna add a a little bit more of that orange up in there like that and then work my way down I know this one's dry but this right here is not quite dry that's why I'm being careful about where to put it okay maybe a little more orange up in here little in here those are dry okay all right so now let's get in a color for that road uh let's see how about you know I really like this magenta color but it's a little bit too dark um let me see here I think I'll do this yellow for the road because the road is this is going to be a road in this case in some of these you can make them a river you know or a waterway and that would be fun too now I'm getting a little heavy-handed with the water so it is getting a little bit buckly with a regular watercolor paper if your paper starts to warp or gets buckled um you can flip it over and um and do water on the back of the paper paint some water on the back and it will um flatten it right out it's like a little magic trick actually all right we got a nice little watercolor underpainting going here with some complementary colors we're going to let that dry or blow dry it and then we're going to apply the clear gesso so that we can add some pesto here we go all right so the surface is dry now and once again just mixed media paper these are for exercises and I think it really does help us to loosen up when we know the surface is not that expensive we're just kind of playing you know so that's fun all right now this is the technique I share often with the clear gesso um by liquid text there's other brands but um there are other ways to turn this into a surface that will receive pastel this is just one of the least expensive ways um and by the way I share this all the time you could totally just put past soft pastels on top of this but it's going to be very limited in how many layers you can get down and thus your colors won't be as rich and um it's it's really much better when you're using watercolor paper or regular paper um to get more layers down so you can either use the clear gesso like we talked about which be sure to get the clear for one it's clear you can see through your underpainting you've just done and it's got a little bit of grit to it little sand in it and that's what all of these have I have a video by the way it's called eight ways to make your own pastel surface I'll put a little link up here in case you want to reference it after you see this video um but also I have other ways of making your own pastel paper and all of these are part of that video one is by using this fine pumice gel also by or by golden I love the golden company they have so many good products and you can tint this it's kind of a gray color um but it's also got the sand in it you can tint it with an acrylic paint um acrylic ink various things you can do if you want to tint it or you can just apply it and go for it this is another product by golden it's called pastel ground I also like this this product it comes in a jar I just got some samples from the company here um and then there's another product called um art spectrum color fix primer this is a really good product and you paint it on your paper or your board I like to use matte board um or you can use gator board that way you have a sturdy surface and it's not going to do this but um but anyway this is another great product that makes it very much like a pastel paper it's fine too and again why would we do this because it's a lot less expensive and I know there's a lot of people just trying to um get a handle on pastels and you know some of us can't don't have the means when I first got started and even now I'm careful about the products I buy because they are so pricey and um I have to be uh I have to be cautious of that since both my husband and I lost our jobs due to COVID-19 so maybe that's why I'm always sharing these um inexpensive ways to paint all right so I'm shaking up my liquid gesso right now I'm going to use a little foam brush right here I've been using a foam roller that's really good when I have it flat I can press it down really good but um because I've got two my husband's coming home and I've got to get some dinner ready I better just get to this here all right so I'm just putting it on here and I'm going to rub it on sometimes I would put it in a jar but here lately I've just been rubbing it on here now it is picking up some of the watercolor but that's okay again this is an under painting and it's okay if it all kind of bleeds together a little bit not that worried about it but you may want to be cautious about not going back over light areas once you've gone over a dark area and this will buckle up a little bit too but that's all right you see it kind of made it nice and moody and impressionistic just gonna see if I've got a good clear or even code on this and for one of the paintings I did recently I used a really stiff brush which gave it a textured look for the grasses I was using in the scene all right so there's our nice loose liquid gesso application okay so now I have it dry it is a little bit buckled but we're just gonna work around it and have a good old time all right so here's my color palette here and I'm gonna once again I know I'm wearing this set out but I'm gonna use the 120 half stick set of unisons it's a great teaching set for me because I don't have to spend a lot of time going to my workshop palette and choosing colors this has such a great assortment of colors I can usually pull them out so I might not even have to use anything else so let's see all right I'm gonna first look at some of these colors up here and determine what I'm gonna do I'm gonna use some of the darkest dark somebody's this dark blue that I had attempted to use before I realized I needed to do watercolor painting so I'm gonna use that and what I do typically if I'm using a set like this and I don't want to have to pull each color out when I use a color I just set it up like that that way I know I'm that's one that I'm in the process of using so in case you're working from a set like that that's kind of a neat idea all right so I'm gonna pull up some of the colors that I'm gonna use mostly of course you see it's in this blue family with some different values and even though it's a triad color palette you see the square it's really three main colors because it it shows the blue one twice so it's it's these it's green blue and magenta so and within each square it shows the different values that we're using and I purposely chose the ones with a little bit of punch like I can show you on the video how to do that all right so I've got some blues chosen I'm gonna get some of these nice greens some really nice lime greens that are kind of nice I may have to pull some from my other set because there's some but I don't quite have that color all right here's some of the magentas and pinks that I have pulled that I'll use all right so I'm gonna get started now first I'm gonna use my darkest darks for this tree I know these vertical things are going to be taller now I'm keeping a light touch here and my tree is going to be not a tree that has like a single trunk with nothing around it it's kind of a bushy tree I like bushy trees and it's uh it's a pretty big tree so it's kind of going off the page here and I can you hear that scratchy sound that's the the gesso I'm gonna go ahead and give some um depth to these grasses right in here because they're always in the foreground they're a little bit darker and you can see down into the depths of where some of the grasses are if they're tall grasses like that all right so there's some of our little tree ideas and I'm gonna go ahead even though um I'm gonna lighten these up and I go ahead and get in those ones that I said I was gonna add another layer of trees kind of back here let's make this one a little bit wider here okay maybe just so I'll kick my camera a little something over here maybe so that gives a little dimension to it all right so there's that darkest blue now I want to take my dark magenta right here and I want to add some of that richness in here to this tree that's kind of like this color over there and it really does make some color fun happen once again this is just a theme you come up with a little theme you can do you can do mine or you can um come up with one that's your own that's just a pretty simple theme that you can do with multiple paintings maybe a little bit of that again I'm gonna lighten these up these two trees look too much the same I think I'll shorten that one when I add the sky or something all right and I didn't want samey samey over here so I'm not sure if I'm gonna keep that there or not all right so let's see now let me get some of that burgundy I got a little bit down here but I I didn't get it over here now let's go ahead and get some of those um background trees and then we've got a layer of like mountains or something behind there so what I'll do with those let's look here I want to keep my warmer colors in the foreground the greens in the foreground so let me go ahead and get in a little bit of this magenta back there and then I'll add some blue on top of it so here's my next value of these pinks and um do I have any warmer or no I gotta stick with this color palette um I'm gonna put these in here for that other row of some trees that are happening back in here behind these kind of peeking in see I'm just turning the pastel kind of over on its side and um maybe keep in mind these would probably be a little shorter back there maybe not could be some tall trees back there okay so now we've got our next level um back in here and they're going to be quite a bit lighter so I think this one's still a little too dark but I might add a little a hint of that just for some color interest you know what maybe I won't add that third layer I'm getting a little too complicated or muddy but I'm going to take some of this color here this is just oh such a pretty color here and I'm going to just give me some grassy feelings here give me a little bit of this um kind of working its way up in here now because we're getting to a little bit of a lighter value and I got some definite bumps going on but I'm going to kind of press it out here all right now we're going to lighten up the background and I got this lightest pink here I will start using some greens in a minute oh that's so pretty isn't that a pretty color all right so we know that these are going to get lighter as they go back work it on see I'm just I'm using the side but sometimes the side is too wide right here I can use the whole side okay the width of it but like in here I kind of have to lift up a little bit on the back if you ever wonder well how are you doing that you get a little bit more finesse the more you do this stuff about how to use these these tools and usually things get more horizontal in the background and gradually they get a little more vertical as you move forward still got a little horizontal going on back here and I would say try to keep these two um I don't know 20 minutes or so so that um you're not overworking these you know because it's supposed to be fun all right so there's that pink in there and let me think about this road here I got a little bit of a lighter pink here it might not be a lot lighter actually it's a little darker in value but it's a nice color isn't it I think I'll get some of that in here working in the road in these grasses and trying to keep where you don't have a strict division from the road in the grass you want it to be kind of a broken edge to that keep it very painterly all right getting some of that in there I think I would like to get a little bit more of this nice color in here for look how that color changes it almost turns to a purple isn't that cool love that oh my gosh that looks just gorgeous how fun is that whee man it almost gets a little bluish color in there and I know I'm gonna have some shadowy sides I think I'm gonna keep I have my light coming from this way um I can lighten up some of these grasses a little but that means that this side of the the road or the grasses is going to be a little darker and I'd probably be getting a little more light here but I don't want to darken up that curve so much if the sunlight was coming down here okay so let's play around I've got some of this color back in there oh yeah that looks really nice down closer to the base of those trees down there again it almost makes that purple so don't don't say you can't blend pastels because sometimes colors do make interesting combinations and um and really change the color okay so this one would be nice really for these trees back here remember I said I wanted them darker than some of this background stuff but I'm not as dark as these are going to be and I think I'll keep this one shorter maybe this one a little bit taller how about that and work it in like that and then back here same thing I might have a tree kind of smaller further away maybe a little bit of that happening in here peeking behind these and everything is just very suggestive now that's a nice color too here for some of the shadows and these grassy side if our light source is coming from here it's going to gradually get lighter in value as it goes back and you know I think I think I'm going to add a little bit more of the dark blue value in here is that a blue or a green yeah that's the one I used it's not as blue as the one in the um in here it's a little more blue green than here but that's kind of all I had I wish I had a one that was more blue I think I'll go try to find one before I muddy this up too much yeah that's a that's a little more of a it looks black here because it's so dark but that's okay so much is about value to establish that mood and sense of believability now let's go on to this next one that's a little bit of a again it's not quite as bright as this one but that's okay I'm going to make this kind of some of these trees that we're a little getting a little further away behind these there's another row that's and what that coolness and lighter value is going to do is it's just going to press things back into the distance it makes them look further away all right so there's that now I've got my next blue here I haven't even gotten to the sky and I'm going to just peek in some of this in places I'll work on sky holes later the spaces between the trees notice some I'm letting that pink show through I've gotten to the green and look how interesting it is already um so I think I'm just going to go with one of these light blues for the sky kind of like the pink though hmm let's take a look at this if I could do a combo I would need a lighter pink like in here so let me try um let me try kind of this pink here I want to keep it light down at the horizon so I'll take this pink and just kind of scumble and do like a a fractured sky oops I'm getting some of that um other color in there see how this is a quite a bit of a darker value so I think I want something a little lighter to mix in with that um and I'm gonna leave a little bit of light um down like right here because I want that little glow over the trees now let me get that lightest blue and let's see how this behaves oh yeah see that it's the same value basically kind of close and what it does we had a lesson on this um the patreon album or patreon homework assignment or story time or something about um fractured skies and how to achieve that when you can use different colors of the same value in the sky all right I'm going to have a little more finesse with some of that this is a pretty dark green whoop that is a dark green but I think I'm going to go ahead and oh this is a softy I think this is a great American and beware if you're using great American on prepared paper you've made your own or really any any of them because they are so soft that you really can't get a lot of layering after you use it so just be careful um all right I'm going to get a little bit of this in for grasses I'm keeping a super super light touch here these greens in I'm working with warped paper but I don't care it's okay might make it look really cool all right so here's the next screen um and I know we're gradually getting some light on this tree like it's just working its way around hitting some of these branches that are kind of sticking out here and up here we might be getting some light on this tree these trees are pretty close in proximity which is why the values haven't decreased a lot in going back because they're like one right after another pretty close all right now I'm going to work some of this green just up around this tree here like big masses of grasses I didn't mean to rhyme but hey why not I'm gonna need to spend some attention on this road here too okay we got that green now I'm gonna gradually lighten my greens up quite a bit lighter so maybe I'll use this one here this is oh what a pretty bright green that is you see that we'll just play sound like Bob Ross let's play with the grasses now here's where we can come in here and just add some hints where the the sun might be hitting some of this work some sky holes in later we want to try to what I want to try to do is sometimes I end up with a pattern even with the um the highlights that I add so I want to be careful with that all right now these I'm gonna make these quite a bit lighter kind of growing up over the trail I'll speed up the last portion of this video but you can see I've already used all three of the color selections of my triad color palette that I chose from palaton and once again you can do this with the color wheel if you are in an area where you can't access palaton but it's very I would say enlightening to play around with these and it really will cause you perhaps to use colors you wouldn't use before often we wouldn't even think of using some of the pinks and maybe even these super bold or or bright greens that I'm using here or maybe some of the brilliant blues that I've used so I continue to work I worked on the road a little bit added a little bit more light or some of the lighter pink to the road I also carved in did some tree hole carving I added more of that beautiful blue to the shadowy side of the road remember that left side of the road was in shadow and just kind of connected things together by incorporating the blue in various places I often share in my videos that try to use some of the similar colors in other places so your painting doesn't feel disjointed and you can create a sense of harmony so this was a lot of fun I even actually decided I wanted to bring back some of that bright pink that I had in my underpainting so I brought it back into the road a little bit and I think it gave it more life and energy so this was really a lot of fun I recommend you give it a try I think you will discover things new ways to create art with bright color palettes that you never would have tried before here's the final painting I really enjoyed this I did a total of five of them so if you're a patron of mine this will actually be your homework assignment and if you're not a patron please become one at this link right here thanks guys happy painting and happy color explorations