Fast Friday Fabric Challenge: Challenge 61 - Color Palette From a Painting You Love

FFFC Challenge 61 – September 2011 Due: Sept 30 noon ET

Select a color palette from a painting Host: Delores Hamilton

Let’s look at what color combinations have been used successfully in paintings by master and contemporary artists and try one out!

This challenge begins with selecting a painting, identifying the color palette used in that painting, and then creating a piece based on that color palette. You can challenge yourself to use only the colors in that palette or you can add or subtract a few colors, if needed. Don’t be concerned with anything else except the color combinations in your chosen painting….This is a color study, not the art style of the painting. Subject, style, techniques, size, etc are your choice.

Color palette links:

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/06/20/color-inspiration-from-the-masters-of-painting/

http://artvarsity.com/35-inspiring-color-palettes-from-master-painters

http://www.non-solo-arte.com/caravaggio-colour-palette.html

Information on colorists:

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/colour-in-painting.htm#colourists

http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/renaissance.html

Paintings that could have inspired art quilts (hypothetically):

Painting by Ruth Palmer:

http://www.redbubble.com/people/ruthpalmer/art/1672071-caught-in-a-rainbow

Art quilt by Laura Wasilowski:

http://www.artfabrik.com/images1/housingdept7.jpg