Katie Jeanne Wood
yellow & purple art journal page

I continue to explore new paint palettes by using Bob Burridge’s color wheel. Yellow, purple, and teal was what I picked for these pages, and tbh, it’s not my favorite. I’m not sure what I could do to make it better..maybe add some white? 

For now, I’m just going to keep moving on. I realized when I started doing this project that I wasn’t going to love all my pages because I’m working with some colors that don’t exactly strike my fancy, and that’s okay. The whole point of painting every day for me right now is to experiment, and try new things.  

I’m still trying to make friends with purple, and the color wheel called for blue-purple, and red-purple. It was a challenge. I found out I prefer a pastel shade of purple. I recently created a yellow abstract with light violet in it that I’m going to be offering for sale soon, and I absolutely adore it. 

I’m considering this exercise a success because I was using different colors, even though I don’t care for the outcome. You’ll never know unless you try..and I did, and now I know.

And hey, I’m filling up art journals fast by painting every day. Three books are completely finished, and three more are almost finished. I’m going to need a new book soon.

Did you know Five Below has watercolor books and mixed media books for only $5? They also sell a pack of 18 brushes for the same price. I haven’t tried these yet, but I’m going to order some soon. I’ll let you know if I like them.  

What I’m watching: Fantastic Fungi – I don’t like mushrooms, but this documentary was pretty amazing.