Blue

Back to the simple smooth shape from a few days ago.

Red

More pixel dust. During my early experiments with this I started thinking I might need two colors. The red "sand" seemed too uniform. But I am focusing on limited palettes in this series and started out thinking "today is red day". Adding another color was not an option. So I stuck with it and eventually everything came together.

Also, still getting my chaos fix.

Blue-Green

So, yesterday I rambled on about fractals, chaos and abstraction. Perhaps this image was building up in me and I had to let it out. Certainly a lot of chaos here, but also abstract and limited palette. Feels good to just go wild.

Yellow

The smooth shape from yesterday's picture, with some craggy mountains.

Random Digression Time: I am trying to create some new fractals. However my new fractal ideas have been producing underwhelming results. I will get something eventually, fortunately every failure generates several new ideas to try. Also the Muses have been pointing me toward these simple abstract images. I find them fascinating, but they also distract me from my investigation of chaos. Anyway, I am confident, or at least hopeful, that these two tracks will merge someday soon.

Green

Here is a new abstract design I created to color over. Not as fuzzy as the previous images in this series.

Pink

Same underlying design as yesterday, this time with a brighter pink shading.

Mud

The classic paintings at the art museum usually have very muted colors. I tend to use bright, fully saturated colors. Perhaps that is a crutch.

Here I try using un-saturated colors. Perhaps not the best idea when I am playing with variations of a limited palette. Of course those classic paintings alluded earlier have some bright colors in the foreground. This would make a good background someday.

Orange-Brown

Going back to the fuzzy and curving lines for the underlying pattern.

Orange-Yellow

More lines and diamonds.

Blue-Cyan

OK, you caught me. The diamonds are really a crisscrossing tilted line grid. But at least they are straight lines

Red

Red accents on the same, but larger, diamond pattern as yesterday.

Yellow

Today's feature color is yellow. I am taking a small step away from fuzzy lines. Instead yellow is used to highlight an array of only slightly fuzzy diamond shapes

Red-Purple (with pink in the middle)

Adding purple brings out the fuzzy-line pattern better. Probably not my favorite, normally I would probably do this in browns. But in the name of color equity, I am going with purple today.

Red-Pink

Here I borrow from the recent "fuzzy line" series for the abstract background pattern, then highlight with red and pink.

The fuzzy, out of focus, appearance is by design. With these colors, I think it is too saturated. Perhaps someone who loves pink will appreciate it more.

Purple-Pink

I do not hate any particular color, but I do not use all color equally. I have no idea why color equality would even be a goal.

Black/brown/blue seems to be my "go-to" color combination. Obviously not exclusively, just as a starting point. Green and purple are kind of rare in my art. So I offer this and the previous work to repair the slight I have given those fine colors.

Green

No, I do not actually hate any colors. Each color has a meaning, each invoke an emotional response. This is the first of a series of reduced palette abstractions.

And a third variant

Second of three color variants

Fuzzy, out of focus, abstraction.

Another shape using the same ideas as the earlier posts.

Tighter groups