Color Scripts

Color script and palettes based on the film Coco (Disney)

See Guitars for Coco for works created based on these studies.

Color Script and Palette Studies for Stages of Calamity

Decided to go with 12 colors for each of my images. I've worked with 8 previously and I want more choices for what I have in mind for this project.

Despair (goes with Fear) - Dark gray, purple, black - Active. Black dragon. Spiral. Tribal Drums.

I like the purple, but it gets too bright. I want dark colors, with just a little highlight. I don't know why the purple isn't showing up in the first image, which I really like. So, I am going to make a palette from the first image, but I am going to do it manually to get all the colors I want.

Weeeelll. It turns out that this is a case of "context". The color that appears as light purple is actually darker and it is in the palette. So, I am going to go with the first palette for Despair.

Anger - red, black, dark purple - Hyperactive. Teeth. Triangles. Forest fire. Disharmonic violins.

Anger is harsh. But fire is smooth. And I want fire because anger is hot. And it burns those around it.Black and red. So, I am going with number 4.

Acceptance - brown, sepia. Limited and Narrow. Passive. Not somewhere to stay. No shape. Watercolor. Mud. Sand. Rasping of sand blown by the wind. This one has so many possibilities...

So, now that I've used palettes that are basically Analogous, perhaps even close to Monochromatic, plus black,I need to stick with that for the series. That leaves me with exactly choice #3 for acceptance. I am good with that. I liked it best anyways.

Hope - pastels of green, gold, and orange - hints of black, purple, and red - Cautiously Active. Round hills. Breast mounds (rebirth and nourishment). Pastel. Sunrise. I found this, which is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6xfDvTBfpo

So, this puts me into a constraint for Hope. I was leaning towards the first or third palettes, pastells with some color because Hope opens up the world. Does it though? Green (#2) is the palette that fits the pattern. Yet, Hope *breaks* the pattern, so I am going to break it with the color palette. #6 only has 6 colors (instead of 12); Hope, if directed, does narrow your options…You can squeeze the colors into an Analogous scheme, but what sticks out to me are the complementary red and green, and the yellow has the function of gray, a neutral "filler" color that makes the other two stand out. I wanna see what I can do with this for Hope.

Since I have a reasonably good idea about the content of my images, I think I am going to constrain myself by doing a color palette first, and limit myself to using only those colors in the artwork. (As opposed to using the color script for guidance to create an image, for which I then create the final palette…which is perfectly valid as well.)

So, how am I going to choose the colors? 12 colors. I think that's more than enough, and not too many. And 12 is a good number for anything…

Color Study for Advertising

Color Study for Wet Coyote

Script: How the Columbia River Came into Being

based on a Native American Story

1. Coyote is very hot.

==> Red, yellow, tint for heat

2. It's raining and coyote gets wet.

==> Gray, blue, shade

3. Coyote swims in the river.

==> dark blue, dark green, saturated, shade

4. Coyote is saved and happy.

==> many colors,more saturated (maybe a red flower)