Limited Palette

My art piece is a butterfly gracefully sitting on a flower. I tried to make the color scheme more on the dark side but I did end up using some brighter colors to color the flower. I used a dark blue and purple to paint the butterfly, while I used pink, red, green, and yellow for the flower. My art has some similarities to my previous work because this is a limited palette painting. The painting was supposed to come out elegant but once I added paint, it kind of ruined any good parts about it all.

In my last limited palette painting I tried to paint over any stray marks with white and it helped to bring out the other colors of the painting which I did in this one. I also feel like I had hard lines to paint over and I wanted everything to come out straight and smooth but I didn’t.

I used big, wide, brushes to fill in large gaps of space, and I used thin, smaller brushes for outlining and filling in smaller lines of space. I had to dump my water out a lot because if I didn’t, the water would’ve mixed in with my new colors and I didn’t want that.

Something I would definitely change about this is the object I would paint on. I feel like with what I used, it was too textured and I feel like I should’ve just used wood so it would look cleaner and better. I also think overall, I should just stop doing limited palette in general and do something that doesn’t require good painting skills.