Purple-Pink

Here is another shape I came up with for the "coloring book". The simpler version used in the previous images won out. Still this one deserves at least an honorable mention.

I think I am at the end of the "Colors I Hate" series. I was not methodical in picking out the colors. I started out selecting colors at random. Midway through I tried using a color wheel and color theory to select colors. The results were disappointing. Possibly because I was not being careful and not selecting the right colors. It might be interesting to do this with properly and precisely selected colors based on color theory. But not now.

Orange-Yellow

Even bigger close up

Pink

A couple more variations on the simple curvy shape. Here a little bit larger and in pink.

Orange

Is this the same as yesterday, but a different color and straight lines instead of curved lines? Or is it something completely different? My intention was the former, but now it seems like a stretch to claim that the two images are related.

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.