vickisigh

local purple enjoyer shocks and makes a series of purple paintings 💜🤯😳

Added 2025-04-15 19:04:09 +0000 UTC

thanks so much for voting in sunday's poll for the color of the week: purple! 💜 btw! feel free to join in on this week's challenge and make some purple art if you're interested. n.n

I started off this week's challenge by using a medium I've been wanting to improve at, acrylic paints! :] I love watching how the paint swirls and blends and the textures that arise from your brush movements. acrylic was a pretty funny choice on my part, because purples can be notoriously hard to mix, especially without a magenta (I substituted with fluorescent pink instead and supplemented with a vibrant purple).

speaking of, learning how to mix paint colors from primaries has been a really fascinating process. it's so different compared to digital art, where all the colors are immediately available to you, and has led me to think about colors and limited palettes in new ways, which is really cool. to use a truism, you very much have the colors that you have. best to figure out how to use them.

generally speaking, this week I'd like to explore the wide range that purple has to offer from warm magentas that lean red and brown to cool indigos that border on blue. I think there's a lot of interesting emotional associations with those different hues and shades that I'm excited to learn more about. 🪻⋆˙⟡