Color Design

For this assignment I had to create a painting using eighty-four different colors. We had twelve main colors, three primary colors, three secondary colors, three tertiary colors, and three tints and three shades of each.

I chose to make the spots on my dog and a flower those eighty-four colors. I used acrylic paint for the whole thing although I first drew out the dog and the flower with a pencil.

The most obvious element that I used in my painting is color. There are many colors in this painting and it is abstract. I also used contrast. I painted the background a dark color because the dog was a very light color and didn't show up well with a light background. It took me a while to decide what color to paint the background because it needed to work with all of the colors and it couldn't be too dark or too light.

I also ran into a problem with having more colors than I did spots on the dog. I realized that I would have to have something else in the painting to put the rest of the colors on. It took me a while but I decided upon a flower because I though that I could get the number of petals to match the number of colors that I had left. Well, as it turns out, I was wrong about that too and decided to made petals gradient with the tints and shads of red-violet through the tints of blue green.

This might be a little strange but my favorite part of the painting was the dog's tongue. I felt that it turned out really good and that I did not mess up the shading. I though that it looked pretty realistic and that's what made me like it.