Vitrine Gallery
Through the looking-glass
Amazing artists have tapped into the potential of using more than one rejected palette to make a single art piece. Their inventiveness inspired us to create a special gallery room that houses art made with skillful usage of more than one palette, combining them in unexpected and fun ways.
Art made with multiple palettes will have the name of the creator and the names of the palettes listed under them, along with a short text explaining its creativity process. This short text is supplied by the artist with minimal edits from the RPL staff.
@iamwarpixel
Mono8, Cor 1.5 and Dull Rainbow
"I'm inspired by both fictitious and real life horror of any kind and I'm currently working on a bigger project about serial killers in which Manson and Gacy are a part of along with others well known killers.
The 3 palettes I chose work together well enough with the base palette being Mono8's grayscale, although the COR 1.5 and Dull Rainbow appear odd and weird as skin color and make up. It makes for an overall appealing, yet eerie look.
I wanted to make some kind of character selection screen and I'm still new to animation. So I combined practice with purpose."
Arabica 4 and Robusta 4
"Going into the piece I knew I wanted to combine two palettes that were in some kind of "set." I used Arabica & Robusta about a year ago for two hand studies and I've always sort of thought of those as one two-part piece, from that I felt inspired to combine the two into one big three-bit palette.
The actual piece itself is just a portrait of my friend in a wig, though it was taken in a coffee shop which is a kind of funny coincidence--
I work as a barista part-time, so the facets of coffee has become a pretty big part of my day-to-day. "Multi-Origin" coffees blend beans from multiple growing regions, which as a result produce their own unique flavours. I like to think of Blending of Arabica & Robusta as something of a Multi-Origin Palette, combining the rich warm colours of Robusta with the smooth, milky hues of Arabica."
Non-Bananary, The Apple Farm, Skeletons, Victorian badger 7
"I chose color palettes that had a number of colors between 4 and 12 colors to force me to work on contrasts. The colors as such was not that important since I was mainly looking at the tonal values.
Mona Lisa is a cultural reference that has been used in all sources. It is a work that is well known to all and by diverting it from its original appearance, it allows us to see the options available to us when we choose to look at things differently.
The fact that the choice of subject does not matter so much allows to focus on the color problematic. No matter what colors I use, the subject remains recognizable while putting the color combination in evidence.
As a visual artist I like to work on visual problematic as exercises so as not to lose hand and at the same time progress in my artistic process."
fire and mountain king
"This piece was for the 6th Inktober 2023 prompt "golden". I had a lot of trouble coming up with ideas of what I wanted to come up with until I had an idea with a crow of shiny things.
I already was eyeing the fire palette for another artwork, and I thought it fit really well for gold. For the crow, I went with Mountain King because it had a lot of shades of gray as well as a couple of colors I thought would be nice to work with.
The piece ended up being a bit of an experiment with textures, namely the clusters of pixels on the crow. Combining the two palettes was a bit of a challenge as well, but I think they both work together to make a fun looking piece. If nothing else, the piece was really fun to make!"