Opposite Colored Paper

"Whidbey Walk"  •  pastel,  9x12  •  ©Angela Frame

I learned on my last piece ("Summer Coy") to use vibrant paper. I ended up using a stone gray colored piece of paper from ArtAgain. I couldn't quite get the luminosity that I had wanted no matter how hard I tried. I think it was a combination of the gray paper and the smooth tooth (limited tooth = not much color layering).

This time around, my subject matter was a forest with a green and blue palette. So I decided to go with a pink colored paper - pink (red) being the color compliment of green. The results are exactly as I'd hoped - bright vibrant colors.

Underpainting

Color palette

The Power of Simple Expression

"Summer Coy"   •   pastel,  9x12   •   ©Angela Frame

My mission is to do pastel paintings with a simplified shorthand - to get to the essence of the subject without being literal.

The Process:

Underpainting

Adding the detail

Color palette