Limited palette painting

by TJ Cunningham“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”Claude Monet Eleven years ago, I was beginning my young career as a professional artist. Having just graduated from college, I had spent the last four years surrounded by my classmates and teachers. Suddenly, I felt like I had been launched into outer space. Until that point, I had focused solely on drawing correctly, but I slowly realized that all of my paintings had a greyish-brown tint to them. Despite having at least 12…

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Using less colours means you are spending less money but you will paint more when you see the results. The goal of a limited palette is to gain more control and get rid of the frustration and confusion.

By Adriana Guidi in Art Tutorials > Painting Tutorials When you’re first taught to paint with a limited palette, you’re usually given three primary colors—red, yellow and blue. Limiting yourself to just a few colors teaches you how to mix colors correctly, see value and temperature, and encourages thought and planning in your color choices. Today we’ll discuss a different limited palette, one that was made famous by Swedish painter Anders Leonard Zorn, which is often known as the Zorn…

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79K views · 6.4K likes | Nigel Sutcliffe on Instagram: "How to choose colors for a limited palette. Here is an additional reel to answer some of the questions from my last reel that went viral! I tried to keep this as simple as possible, I hope it helps other painters out there. It's hard to condense something like this into 45 seconds. Yes you can use 2 colors, or more than 3, and the shape doesn't have to be a triangle. Experiment and see what you can come up with! Have fun. For a more…

I should have posted this before the post below, since it was from teaching notes for last week. This palette is slightly expanded from the limited palette from a few posts ago to include a cool ye…

When I first heard the term ‘limited palette’ I thought it meant that a painting had a limited number of colours in it. Actually that’s not strictly true (here comes an embarrassing confession) when I first heard the term ‘limited palette’ I thought it meant that you used a small palette—as in ‘physically’ small. I looked at my kiddie-sized plastic tray and thought “Limited palette? Yup! Nailed it!” But my joy was short lived. I soon discovered that ...

Master artist Michael Lynn Adams steps you through a simple exercise where you'll learn the amazing versatility of the Zorn limited palette.

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