My Goose is Cooked

I decided to do a quick study on the differences among form, color, and hue.  Can we, as a viewer, see the differences, or the similarities, if a form has a color that is distinctly not a natural color.  

In this picture, the goose has more intense color than the background,  making it stand out from the background.  Also, the background goes from less intense to more intense as we move from top to bottom, making the bottom seem much closer.  

The goose itself has proper form of a goose, but the colors are anything but goose-like.  our brain tells us its a goose and to not worry about the odd colors.  I'll bet than when you look at it your brain even fills in a bit of the wing shape on the goose.  

Well, like I said this was just a fun exercise to do.   I hope you like it!  Oh, and I almost forgot.  There is a youtube video to go along with it.  

King Me

Last week I was a little frustrated with my painting and a friend of mine suggested I look at things a bit differently and use different colors or different paints to paint my pictures.  Well, I've got some old paints that were made in West Germany.  I don't know what West Germans knew about paint or anything.  I do know that the colors in this set are kind of different and mostly opaque.  When I say they are kind of different, what I mean is that 7 different blues, none of which match with my existing french ultramarine, pthalo blue, cerulean blue deep or cerulean blue.  It's the same thing with the 6 greens, 7 reds and 5 yellows.  

I had used this set for about a week when I first started painting  but couldn't get used to the colors.  They are just weird.  But for this painting I mixed and mixed and came out with colors that I think are pretty good.  In fact, I made a deal with myself.  If Im gonna paint with a wide swath of colors, I can't mix a big pool of one color and keep dipping it in.  I have to make a small pool of it, and add too it or change it each time I dip into it.  You can see in the body of the bird there are reds oranges and yellows all throughout.  And the blue of the bird is at least 4 different shades throughout.  

The log the bird is sitting on started as a really pale grey, like it was really bleached out.  then it got a bit darker grey, blue, yellow, green and finally it is what it is.  I don't think I'm done with this one, you might see hime make a return on this sit in a finalized form, but for now, I'm back and having fun with some new paints.  Trying to mix any kind of a normal color with these crazy paints is fun in itself.  Thanks for the nudge Kelly Murphy.