Limited Palette

Here's a little piece I've been working on for the past few months. My color theory has always been a little weak, so I purchased James Gurney's Color and Light and started this as an exercise.

I've limited myself to only four colors and have found that even with that limitation, a painter can still blend a huge range of values and hues.

Not only does the glow of the moth affect the coloring but the different plant species will also be different values as well. This still needs a bit of work to bring it all together, but I've been delighted with the overall outcome.

Commitment

It is what holds me back as an artist. Commitment to style. Commitment to a subject, and commitment to a medium. I love working with watercolor, oils, pastels, pen and ink, and now Gold Leaf. Each subject and each medium creates a different style/feel in my work. 

I keep telling myself that at some point, this will all accumulate in an incredible nexus of unique work that I'll be famous for after my untimely death at the hands of a rabid gopher, but...

Still waiting. 

In the meantime enjoy my artist ADD. Original work and prints available at  Redbubble and Etsy store.

Amanda Zimmerman is a scientific/nature illustrator.

She is currently writing and illustrating a book on mangroves.

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