Do not scroll down just yet!
Take a look at this grid of 100 collage paper prints from my 100 Day Project.
How many paint colors do you think I used to create all of these prints?
Keep in mind that each print contains only three colors, and not every print uses the same three colors.
Got a number in mind?
Go ahead and make your guess before scrolling further.
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The answer is six.
Just six paint colors
(All Liquitex Basics.)
- Fluorescent Orange
- Light Blue Permanent
- Transparent Red
- Prism Violet
- Bronze
- Light Green Permanent
I chose these colors partly intentionally and partly at random. The color gods and I had lengthy discussions about it.
The variety delighted me.
Some of the results were exactly what I expected. Others completely surprised me. Looking at the finished grid, it's hard to believe that all 100 prints came from the same six colors.
That's this week's tip:
Limiting your palette can create more possibilities than you might expect.
When you spend more time exploring fewer colors, you begin to notice possibilities you might otherwise miss. You start discovering combinations, relationships, and effects that would never appear if you constantly reached for a different tube of paint.
This collection has become one of my favorite experiments, and now that the printing phase is finished, I'm excited to start cutting these papers up and using them in new ways.
The printing may be finished, but these papers are just getting started. They will be the basis for my "next big thing." I'm not sure what it will be just yet as I am just beginning to explore, but you can get on the waitlist to get updates as I work my way through it. 🙂
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