20 Jetting off!

I'm flying off for the holidays tomorrow, but will hopefully be updating this space with photos of my progress (I'm bringing some materials -including lanterns! they're HUGE, sent me on a frenzy to find a bag big enough to handcarry them!- over to Bangkok to work on). In the meantime...

this looks like a pretty achievable idea for sketches- a dreamcatcher in white paint over what looks like watercolour lines in the background. what's more, the way the dreamcatcher's pattern is painted is different from the ones i encountered before- and the feathers have been replaced with much welcomed leaves!

also, I just bought some coloured tissue paper from Art Friend- two packs of just baby blue and light pink for the backgrounds and a pack of 20 multicoloured sheets. I'm configuring the colour schemes for the different compositions right now so I figured that since my colour pencil set is notoriously limited, it would be easier to use the computer! hence, i went all squinty-eyed and used photoshop to try and get the 17 colours as precise as possible and created the swatches above. pretty professional-looking, huh ;-)

some colours are not exact but they're around there so i'm settling for now cos i was going cross eyed! it was pretty hard trying to imagine everything in my head, the way the colours worked -or didn't work- together. now i'll have to figure out which ones to put where because now that i've given up the idea of pastels (it wouldn't stand out enough given the  mediums i'm using), i want really contrasting colours that give a POP together.

the only ideas that really stick with me right now are greens and blues for the castles, and orange and purple for the swallows. a strange colour choice for the latter and i'm still deciding if it'll be too similar to the hair colour of the girls, but i really love how orange and purple look together.

(okay, maybe not orange in this example, but...) as evidenced here by the very lovely Miss Karlie Kloss, who's one of my favourite models.