Tuesday 23 June 2015

Summer of Colour, Week 3 - Delicious cherries

Every Monday morning during Summer of Colour, I can't wait for the new colour palette for the week to be announced, and as last week, I was very pleased when I saw the choice of this week's colours. I bought a box of delicious cherries last Saturday, and I left a few, hoping that I could use them as a subject to draw for this week. This week's colours are two purples and a yellow. Perfect. 


Yellow, I have to say, is my least favourite colour of all. Especially those cold lemony yellows. Awful. You hardly find any yellow in my home, and although I love flowers, I don't like yellow ones either (no, not even sunflowers). I've been trying to persuade my Mum to go for a white/blue/pink/purple, and maybe some red and the odd orange, if it absolutely has to be, colour scheme in her garden, but without success. There's always some yellow somewhere, unfortunately. But then, yellow is my Mum's favourite colour, so I can't blame her. (But if I'll ever have a garden, there won't be any yellow in it at all).

I'm alright with those very warm, leaning slightly towards orange kind of yellows, though, such as gamboge, which I used as a background. And I came across a mustardy shade of yellow in a clothes shop in Dorchester earlier this year, which I find myself liking very much indeed, especially in combination with petrol green and/or white.

Drawing with coloured pencils on a watercolour background is very different to just drawing directly on the white paper. The effect of the pencil layers, both colour and strokes, varies quite a lot depending on the layer of watercolour underneath. I enjoyed drawing the cherries, and I very much enjoyed eating them afterwards.

23 comments:

  1. Such a gorgeous painting you made using this week's SOC colors! It sure doesn't show that yellow isn't a favorite color of yours! I love what you created! Thanks for sharing it! HUGS!!!

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  2. Yellow or not, I think it's just lovely!! :0)

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  3. Another lovely watercolor.

    I guess everyone has one color they dislike. Mine is orange unless it's very light and peachy. I live in a cold climate and I love yellow flowers with their bright, sunny faces.

    My SOC can be found here: http://proartz.blogspot.com/2015/06/summer-of-color-5-week-3-purple-purple.html

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  4. Love your work. Beautiful painting.

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  5. Your cherries look good enough to eat. x

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  6. Beautiful work for SOC, Valerie

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  7. you did it so well, nobody would think you don´t love yellow. the cherries look so yummy!

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  8. I love how you combined the 2 colours here. And yes, I feel like eating cherries now ... ;-)

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  9. Yoy have made some smashing cherries, and I like them on top of that yellow. We're all different in color favorites, and the purples are not at all one of mine.

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  10. Lovely! My mouth is watering - too bad you ate those beautiful cherries.

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  11. I can't wear yellow at all, but I don't mind it in paintings. Your use of it is perfect for making the fruit shine out strong!

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  12. Your painting is beautiful; the cherries worked well!!!

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  13. Cherries were a great choice for this latest SOC challenge. I enjoyed the painting, and would have eaten them, too.

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  14. lovely illustration-and I think that despite the fact that you don't like yellow, this color sets off the cherries beautifully! SOC #54

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  15. I'm not a fan of cool yellows either, but the warm kind, I do like and use in my work. It was funny what you said about the garden, since I have been working on it trying to add more color (with less water, drought and all that...) and there is a big yellow one there.
    The painting you made looks great, even if you are not so fond of yellow lol

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  16. looks good :D I want to eat some cherries now lol

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  17. Very sweet, I love it :-)

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