April M. Rimpo Art: color schemes

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Sunday, September 20, 2020

"The Love-Birds Boat", Watercolor, 24" X 36"

The Love-Birds Boat, watercolor © April M Rimpo

The Love-Birds Boat

Watercolor, mounted and varnished

24" X 36" painting

26" X 38" Brushed Silver Frame

Available for Purchase

I love watching birds flock to fishing boats when they return to port. I’m sure the pelican’s goal was a late afternoon snack, but from what I can tell the fisherman didn’t cooperate. As soon as he pulled into the dock and tied up the boat, two pelicans perched on the side. Their heads formed the shape of a heart and I couldn’t help but think they had love on their minds. Capturing the glow of the boat in the late afternoon sun emphasized by the cool lavender shaded side led me to create this painting in an orange, violet, and green palette. Pushing the colors of the brown pelicans to orange-brown helped them stand out against the multi-colored water, creating a romantic mood for the painting concept.

I used one of my favorite color schemes of orange-red, green, and violet. Emphasizing the violets brought the dreamy feel to this painting that I desired.

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Saturday, July 18, 2020

A Glint of the Sun, watercolor 14" X 11"

Artwork by Maryland Artist, April M Rimpo, landscape in watercolor on canvas

A Glint of the Sun © April M Rimpo

A Glint of the Sun

Watercolor on Canvas

14" X 11" in black frame

Available at HorseSpirit Arts Gallery

A Glint of the Sun shows a chicken coop on my neighbor's property. The chickens tend to stay in the back of the property so I seldom see them, except when they wander out onto our shared private road. I’ve been wanting to paint this barn since we moved here 23 years ago. I’ve taken dozens of photos but none showed the barn well. In March I went out for a morning walk, not my normal time, and there the barn stood in its glory with the sun shining on the roof. I finally got some long awaited photos of the barn. It was worth the wait. I hope you enjoy the painting as much as I rejoiced being able to finally share this view with others.

I chose a spring green, purple, and red/orange color scheme for this painting. I find this color scheme dramatic and cheerful at the same time. I find it very appealing and hope you too will find this to be a joyful and cheerful spot that you love to periodically visit.

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Thursday, July 4, 2019

"Wondering" 18" X 24" watercolor

"Wondering" 18" X 24" watercolor © April M Rimpo

Wondering is an exploration into telling a story, about a moment in a person's life and what I image may be her thought, through colors, lighting, and shapes. Leveraging full strength, non-representational, wet-into-wet watercolors for the shaded side of her face, I then juxtaposed this strength with very pale natural colored washes on the brightly lit side of her face. Hard lines add texture to her hair, along with a few touches of splatter, mimic the splatter that forms the feathers in her hair. The addition of some geometric shapes in her face, in the foreground and background contrast with highly organic blends surrounding her. These organic blends are repeated in the squares on the left side of the painting, serving as a means to pull together the organic and geometric contracts found elsewhere.

I'm delighted that "Wondering" was selected by juror, Joseph Becherer, for the International Society of Experimental Artists International Exhibition. Joseph Becherer is the director of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame and formerly founding director and curator of the sculpture program at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This exhibit will run from September 7 - October 26, 2019.

This painting is available on April's website, where you can see a larger image.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Fluid Acrylic and Watercolor Workshops held in October

Sharing Fish Tales by April M Rimpo - SOLD

When I teach I like to vary the lessons to keep my classes interesting. Sharing Fish Tales was a new lesson in my last Fun with Fluid Acrylics workshop held at the Columbia Art Center. This was my practice painting before the class so I knew how to go about teaching each step of the process. It's important to me to have a well planned class to be sure we can cover all the material. I am delighted that I just sold this painting, which brought back great memories from the purchaser's childhood. I do love when my work touches someone this way.

This 2-Day workshop was packed with three lessons that build upon each other. In other words, skills learned in the first lesson were used in the second, then techniques from the second were reused in different ways in the third lesson.

I always bring along examples of my work where I have used the techniques in similar ways but with different subject matter to allow everyone to see some options of where they might go with what they are learning.

A few samples of the paintings generated by the students.

I also taught a couple Nighttime Landscapes in Watercolor classes this fall. Like the Fun with Fluid Acrylics class I had done research before the class to try to optimize the chances of success of the student's paintings. In this case the research was related to what pigments would work best for nighttime landscapes. I identified some blue orange complements that looked like they would work to create dramatic night skies in a blog post by Jane Blundell. If you follow that link you will see Jane Blundell was not investigating night skies but her color studies allowed me to identify a few blends that would get dark enough when blended properly. When I received the tubes of painting I tried mixes of each complement to see which gave me the rich darks I wanted and allowed me to create some nice muted browns and greens for the landscape. I ended up with 4 pigments to use for the paintings which I recommended to the students. I also let them bring their own pigments if they didn't want to buy and recommended single pigment paints since they are less prone to getting "muddy" - a term artists use when the paints mix to dull colors that are no longer luminous.

I was thrilled by the results from both of these classes. The students brought their own references for the nighttime class with Baltimore Watercolor Society; I love the variety of sites. Here are a few images of their work for you to enjoy.

Nighttime Landscapes - Student work

Closer View of Student Work

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Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Night Scenes by April Rimpo

Nighttime Stroll 30" X 24" Fluid Acrylic
by April M Rimpo

I've started a series of night scenes and wanted to share not only the paintings but a little bit about the pigments I used to accomplish these.

Nighttime Stroll

Fluid Acrylic

30" X 24" *

Quiet Times 11" X 14" Watercolor by April Rimpo

Quiet Times

Watercolor

11" X 14" *

I often find it is best to experiment with color before starting a painting where I want something different. In this case, the colors that work best for nighttime scenes are still luminous and not what artists call muddy. Muddy colors are dull and lifeless.

In the fluid acrylic painting, Nighttime Stroll, I started with pale pastel color in the underpainting that I know would work well for the pale blossoms on the trees and also lend a glow to the rest of the surroundings. The dark sky was worked second to get an idea of the value range from the lightest areas by the street lights to the darkest areas of the sky. At the very end I wet the entire surface and applied one final coat of the grayed blend of blue I was using in the sky over the entire surface (except by tree near the light) to add continuity and to shroud it all in night. The blend was primarily Indigo with touches of Permanent Alizarin Red, and Yellow Ochre to gray it. These three colors have recently found there way into several of my fluid acrylic paintings, a new favorite triad of color for me.

Quite Time is watercolor and required a different set of pigments. This time a different triad of Daniel Smith Indanthrone Blue, Permanent Orange, and Hansa Yellow Medium. These were a new combination for me that I found through some research in a blog by Jane Blundell (https://janeblundellart.blogspot.com/search?q=mixing), where she presents complements that make a good "black" and perfect neutral blends. I chose this particular triad also because it supports not only the dark sky but also a great set of greens that I knew I needed for the foreground. I love how three pigments can be used to create such a wide variety of colors.

I added a fourth color for the light sky areas (Daniel Smith Magnesium Blue). How I decided to use this particular color is a story for another blog post.

* Both paintings will be varnished and framed.

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Friday, May 11, 2018

Quite a Run in AcrylicWorks - Best of Acrylic

It never gets old being selected for the Northlight Publications' Best of Acrylic Painting series AcrylicWorks. Each year when the new Edition arrives I am thrilled to share it with friends and to add it to my bookshelf at home.

AcrylicWorks3: Creative Textures featured work that used either tactile textural approaches or the illusion of texture in the work. I had two paintings included: Moving Up and Struggles in the Southwest. I've included the images of the two pages for these paintings.

Since the text for Movement was on the left page, I've included the full page spread.

In each book the artist provides a short writeup about the paintings on inspiration and technique.

At right is the second painting in AcrylicWorks3: Celebrating Textures. I found my southwest paintings were the best subject to show how I create the illusion of texture. Crevices of rocks that provide handholds for the rock climber and the texture of the rocks in the mounds of each grave were perfect subjects.

AcrylicWorks4: Captivating Color included one of my paintings, Freight Yard, which continues to be a favorite of mine. This was likely the first time I decided to do the sky in a color other than blue. I spent a lot of time considering the color scheme of the painting to really emphasize the cranes and freight cars. A blue sky would have diminished the impact of this painting. I retained the texture of clouds but the pale yellow and brown with tiny hints of blue really makes this painting sing.

Freight Yard, 24" X 45" fluid acrylic by April M Rimpo

AcrylicWorks5: Bold Values is the 2018 Edition of Best of Acrylic Paintings and I am delighted to have two works in this book: Lanterns and Movement. Lanterns is in the Cityscape/Urban Scene section, while Movement is in Figures/Portraits section.

Lanterns 24" X 18" Fluid Acrylic by April M Rimpo

Lanterns is available at HorseSpirit Arts Gallery in Ellicott City, Maryland. The colors pop even more in person than they do in the image here. I repeated the colors of the lanterns on the shadowed sides of the building, using purple and other dark colors to build up the middle value and darkers areas. I love how the lanterns reflect in the glass, so I included those reflections in my rendering.

This painting was included in Courtney Jordon's article 25 Acrylic Paintings from 25 Top Artists.

Movement 25" X 18" Acrylic by April M Rimpo

Movement is one of my tributes to the Triathlon that runs through our town each year. I love to photograph the cyclists and then portray them and their energy as they travel through our rural setting. When working on an abstract background, using bold values are essential to emphasize the rider. I so admire these athletes that I love to painting them.

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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

"Tenement" 14" X 29" watercolor

Tenement by April M Rimpo

Tenement

watercolor

14" X 29" image

20" X 35" brushed silver frame

$975 within the United States*

Available in Touchstone Gallery's Online Store

In Tenement I played with darks and lights making what was shadow areas in my photograph light and bright areas dark. I call this an "inverse" painting. I also played with colors using vibrant colors in the now lit areas of the brick wall and rich, dark blues and purples for the now dark areas. The fire-escape stairs and railings were done in light neutral colors to separate them from the wall. When I compare this with the original photograph I feel looking at this painting is much more exciting. See my source photo below.

At left is the Analog color scheme I selected for the painting. The color charts from Color Scheme Designer provide various strengths of each color and some blends of the colors. I use two blues, burnt orange, and a purple to create this painting, so I stayed fairly true to the plan, shifting the rose color more to the purple end of the spectrum and adding some a lighter blue.

My source photo

I think my inverse approach has led to interesting paintings that is fun for the viewer to take in and figure out. One of my other paintings done using the same approach is described in my blog post Fire Escape.

I'd love to hear whether you find this approach draws you into the painting or if something closer to the source photo would have been closer to what you like.

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Thursday, July 27, 2017

"Gothic Pinnacles" a 20" X 16" Watercolor

Gothic Pinnacles by April M Rimpo

Gothic Pinnacles

Watercolor

20" X 16" image
$960

It's been awhile since I shared the colors and steps used to create a painting, so let's do it. I end this blog post on the architecture.

The Paints (pigment codes):
I used lavender/violet-yellow complements to create this painting. Complements tend to attract my eye and this particular set of colors conveys a happy feeling to a finished painting. The cool lavender and violet colors were used for the shadowed side of the building, while yellows were used in areas more brightly lit by the sun.

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors – New Gamboge (PY153)

Winsor and Newton Artist Water Colour – Yellow Ochre (PY43)

Daniel Smith Quinacridone Coral

American Journey Artists’ Watercolor Royal Amethyst (Dioxazine) (PV23)

Holbein Artists’ Watercolor Cerulean Blue (PB35)

Daniel Smith Indigo (PB60, PBk 6)

I prefer to work with paints that have a single pigment in them. It is easier to avoid dull, lusterless colors, which watercolor painters call "mud". This small set of pigments allows me to create a pretty wide range of colors. You might not expect the green in the evergreen trees to be created from the same pigments used in the buildings, but they are.

To make the building and trees feel like they belonged to the same paintings, I included some of these same greens in the shadow areas of the building and in the dark window panes.I also added violet colors into tree highlights. Artists call this "bouncing the colors" to create color harmony.

A few of the steps
In this section I'm featuring the windows in the foreground because I think they work well to illustrate the gradual layering to build color in the architectural details.

Palest colors on left windows and begining of darks on 3rd

Initially my goal was to establish the pale colors in the lighter areas of the window. This includes the whites and yellow of the scroll work and the pinks in the lattice work in the windows. The left two windows show the first layer of color. In the window on the right, I added darks to see how the lattice in the windows worked once the darks were added. This is typical in my work. Shifting back and forth between painting lights and darks makes sure the value range is right.

Light grays in scroll work on 1st and 3rd windows

This second photo shows the gray shadows in the upper scroll work in the far left window. You can see I was working quite gradually on the scroll work making sure the shapes were accurate. The window on the right has the darkest darks added to the scroll work, giving a nice 3-D effect. The windows all have their first layer of dark allowing a lot of the pastel colors to show through.

Darks on All Windows

In this photo, the darks in the scroll work are done, but the darks in the windows need to get darker before the painting is finished. I stopped working on these windows here until the painting was nearly complete so I can compare them with my darkest darks in the painting.

Close-up of finished windows.

After finishing all the spires, the windows in the distant building, and the tree, I decided the window panes in the front needed to be darker and more neutral in color. The earlier shade was more blue/violet. I added the dark colors from the tree to the darkest areas of these windows. The green neutralized the violet and also helped integrate the green into the building, albeit in a subtle way.

I hope this explanation helps. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask in a comment below.

The Architecture
Here is an excerpt from section on Pinnacles on the Washington National Cathedral website https://cathedral.org/what-to-see/exterior/pinnacles/

A pinnacle is an architectural ornament originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterward used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations. The pinnacle looks like a small spire. In addition to adding to the loftiness and verticality of the structure, the pinnacles are very heavy and enable the flying buttresses to counteract the weight of the vaulted ceiling and roof. By adding compressive stress (a result of the pinnacle weight), the building’s load is shifted downward rather than sideways.

Finials are the topmost portion of a pinnacle, often sculpted as a leaf-like ornament with an upright stem and a cluster of crockets. Crockets are projected pieces of carved stone that decorate the sloping ridges of pinnacles. The carved shapes of these elements help move rainwater down while keeping the water from the roof or walls.

The website article goes on to discuss the damage from the 2011 earthquake on the East Coast and reconstruction efforts.

Monday, July 3, 2017

Des Colores: Movement III 18" X 24" Fluid Acrylic

Movement III by April M Rimpo

Movement III

Acrylic

18" X 24" image

I love color. I still think the lights and darks (value range) of a painting are the most important design element to make a painting work, but the colors can really make a painting sing.

Last year I experimented with a number of color combinations described in a book by Stephen Quiller, Color Choices: Making Color Sense Out Of Color Theory. This painting shows one combination that really appealed to me and I have now used several times: Lime Green, Orange, and Purple. Yes, there are touches of Pthalo blue as well, but it was used to create the Lime Green, so leaving a little of it felt right in this painting. There is not enough to alter the primary color combination I chose to use.

This painting was about the energy and speed of the cyclists who were competing in a triathlon. The abstracted background added not just a fascinating backdrop to the cyclists but helped communicate their speed since it would out of focus and really a blur of color as they moved through the world. I admire cyclists and love to share their energy with others as part of telling their story.

This painting has exhibited in the following exhibitions:

26th Annual International Society of Experimental Artists (2017) Sanibel Island, Florida

2^nd Annual Online All-Member Juried Exhibition of the International Society of Acrylic Painters (2017)

Here are a couple other paintings where I used the same Lime Green, Orange, and Purple combination.

Cycling
Floral Wonderland
Sunset
Dancers
Shadows on the Path
Country II
Chicadee

Other paintings of cyclists
Movement Series
Cycling and Race

Friday, June 16, 2017

Great Watermedia Resources

In today's blog I thought I would share some art sites that I have found helpful and how they will be useful to you too. I've added a few new resources to the list.

50 Best Blogs for Watercolor - I've just discovered this one and am still reviewing it. I'm sure it will take a while to get through the contents and appears to contain a wealth of helpful information. Provided by Web Design Schools Guide.

10 links to watercolor demonstrations
20 links to watercolor artist's sites
10 links to art business sites
10 links to art news and reviews

There is one art business blog that I just have to add ArtsyShark. In addition to great art business advice they feature artists a few times each week.

One watercolor book that is published annually by North Light is Splash. I always look forward to seeing it and have purchased a copy the last few years. Splash 16: Exploring Textures has just been released and is sure to be as amazing as ever.

I also have to share a link to a new watercolor class by Deb Watson. Her new Pet Portraits in Watercolor class is available on Craftsy. Be sure to also check out Deb Watson's website.

Helpful tips to help protect your data, be it written material, visual art, or other forms of art, in Vimeo by Kathryn Goldman

Color Theory and Harmonies - Nice definitions of different color schemes
In the same vein, a site I like for exploring color schemes is Paletton.com's Color Scheme Designer, which is intended for web designers but works great for visual artists too.

You can read a summary evaluation of a wide variety of watercolor paint manufacturers in a blog on WonderStreet.com's blog, Which Brand of Watercolour Should You Use.

Updated: June 2017

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Thursday, May 4, 2017

"Freight Yard", 24" X 45" gallery wrapped acrylic and watercolor

Freight Yard by April M Rimpo

Freight Yard

acrylic and watercolor
24" X 45" varnished gallery wrapped paper
$2595

AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE HERE

I am not sure what draws me to industrial scenes, but it is probably the colors and the structure of the equipment. I didn't want the blue crane to blend in with the sky so I decided to use a golden, gray colored sky. I love to use red and orange with blue to create tension with this red based analog color scheme. By using very dark values I accentuated the structure of the equipment and the train rail. Contrasting the geometric shapes of the freight yard with the soft sky and wet runs at the bottom of the painting provided an interesting balance between industrial and organic.

Freight Yard is included in North Light Books' AcrylicWorks 4: Captivating Color, best of acrylics. Read the press release for the book here. Below is an image of the cover and page 31, where my painting is included.

April's other industrial paintings include:

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Thursday, March 23, 2017

"Shopping Day" 6" X 6" Fluid Acrylic on Aquabord

Shopping Day by April M Rimpo

Shopping Day

Fluid Acryic on Aquabord

6" X 6" image in 6.5" X 6.5" Navy Blue Frame with Gold Stripe

$95

Available Through Touchstone Gallery

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Result of "Windows" Color Theory Survey

Windows by April M Rimpo

You may recall my post from April 1st where I first showed my painting "Windows" and described how colors can impact how we perceive the emotions conveyed by an image. The original post is here. I've repeated the image of "Windows" here and the numbering scheme used to collect responses.

To identify each image I used this numbering scheme: Left column is identified as L#, where the image # is 1 to 5 counting from top to bottom. Similarly, an image on the right would be R#, where # is 1 to 5 from top to bottom. For example the man's eyes on the upper left would be L1. His companion painting is in the middle on the right and would be labeled R3.

Here are the questions I asked in the survey along with the answers I received from about 20 people. Not statistically significant but enough to look for trends. The number in parentheses preceding and answer is the number of people who gave that answer.

Which image feels

most serious or intelligent?
(2)L2, (4)L3, (2)L5, (4)R2, (3)R3, (1)R4, (5)R5
most joyous and full of wisdom?
(13)L1, (5)R3, (1)R4
most self-sufficient, alive and confident?
(1)L2, (3)L3, (1)L4, (1)R1, (1)R2, (1)R3, (5)R4, (5)R5
most peaceful with inner strength?
(1)L1, (3)L2, (4)L4, (2)R1, (2)R2, R3, (2)R4
saddest?
(4)L2, (5)L3, (1)L4, (3)R1, (1)R4, (1)R5

Below are the color theories I researched and the emotions they said are associated with each color. Let's see how the answers to the survey relate.

Serious and Intelligence - Per Color Wheel/Color Theory bright blue & indigo are closely associated. However yellow is also associated with intellect and Kadinsky says orange correlates with being serious. This question received a large variety of answers with L3, R2 & R5 receiving 4 or 5 votes. L3 matches the blue theory, R2 corresponds with the yellow and orange concepts. I suspect R5 was influenced more by the expression than the color. Two of the other answers given also had a lot of yellow. The other two answer given were more pink/red which can be associated with strength and determination which may be associated with being serious.

Joyous and full of Wisdom - Received 13 votes for L1. Per color theory yellow is associated with joy and happiness while gold adds the wisdom component, so the L1 answer definitely matches color theory. R4 also received one vote and this image also have a yellow/golden appearance. R3 received 5 votes; it is significantly red which matches Kadinsky's association of red with joy. Violet and bright blue can also be associated with wisdom, but none of the images have a lot of violet and the expression in L3 is not happy so that is likely why it was not selected.

Self-sufficient, Alive and Confident are attributes of red according to Kadinsky. Independence is similar in concept and is associated with violet according to color theory. This question received a wide variety of answers with R4 and R5 each receiving 5 votes. Although several images are very pink, R5 does have the strongest red. The eyes in R4 are very violet in color and may have resulted in the large number of votes for this image. L3 was the next most voted answer with 3 votes and per color theory bright blue is associated with confidence.

Peaceful with Inner Strength - According to Kadinsky these are most associated with bright blue and green. Color theory associates blue with tranquility and calmness and specifically olive green with peace. L4 received the most votes (4) has a lot of olive green accenting the eyes and nose. It is interesting to note that although L3 is all blue, it received no votes, but again the expression is more intense and does not communicate peacefulness. L2 received 3 votes even though it has neither blue or green. I'm guessing the expression has more to do with why this image received these votes.

Sadness was addressed by Kadinsky, who said violet invokes sadness. It was interesting that L3 received five votes, the highest number of votes. Color theory cannot justify that response as none of the emotions associate with blue relate to sadness. L2 received 4 votes and R1 received 3 votes. They both have some violet near the eyes and in the shadows by the nose. R5 received 1 vote and has pale lavendar in the shadows around the eyes. Lastly R4, which has violet eyes and a violet shadow by the nose also received one vote. L4 received one vote even though it has no violet. L4 does have brown, which corresponds to dull and inhibited which perhaps was seen as sadess. It is interesting to me that L1, R2 and R3 contain no violet and received no votes. So although violet was not a prevalent color in any of the images, it was present to small amounts and did seem to track with many of the answers provided.

It's interesting to me that in many cases the votes could be traced to the emotion suggested by either Kadinsky or color theory. However, the only emotion that was strongly correlated was "Joyous and full of Wisdom", where nearly 70% selected L1 and 26% selected R4, where a golden glow was prevalent in both images.

Many thanks to those who participated by answering my survey.*

Color	Kadinsky Color Emotion	Color Wheel/ Color Theory
Bright Blue	Peaceful,deep and supernatural	Tranquility, understanding, and calmness It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.
Red	Restless, glowing, alive and confident, joy, energy and triumph	energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love.
Indigo	deep and supernatural	knowledge, power, integrity, and seriousness.
Yellow	warm, exciting, disturbing or madness	joy, happiness, intellect, and energy
Orange	radiant, serious, healthy	Dark orange can mean deceit and distrust. Red-orange corresponds to desire, sexual passion, pleasure, domination, aggression, and thirst for action. Gold evokes the feeling of prestige. The meaning of gold is illumination, wisdom, and wealth. Gold often symbolizes high quality.
Violet	morbid, extinguished […] sad	wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic, Light purple:romantic and nostalgic feelings
Green	peaceful with inner strength, stillness, passive, The absolute absence of movement, is good for tired people, but after the rest the feeling of calmness can become boring	Dark green is associated with ambition, greed, and jealousy. Yellow-green can indicate sickness, cowardice, discord, and jealousy. Aqua is associated with emotional healing and protection. Olive green is the traditional color of peace.
Brown	dull, hard, inhibited, mix of red and black

* For those of you wondering why the "Most Tired" question, included in my previous blog, is not discussed here, that is because I brought the survey questions with me to two receptions where the painting was on exhibit and due to my oversight I left off the Tired question. As a result there simply weren't enough respondents who answered that question to include it in the results.

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Sunday, September 20, 2020

"The Love-Birds Boat", Watercolor, 24" X 36"

Saturday, July 18, 2020

A Glint of the Sun, watercolor 14" X 11"

Thursday, July 4, 2019

"Wondering" 18" X 24" watercolor

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Fluid Acrylic and Watercolor Workshops held in October

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Night Scenes by April Rimpo

Friday, May 11, 2018

Quite a Run in AcrylicWorks - Best of Acrylic

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

"Tenement" 14" X 29" watercolor

Thursday, July 27, 2017

"Gothic Pinnacles" a 20" X 16" Watercolor

Monday, July 3, 2017

Des Colores: Movement III 18" X 24" Fluid Acrylic

Friday, June 16, 2017

Great Watermedia Resources

Thursday, May 4, 2017

"Freight Yard", 24" X 45" gallery wrapped acrylic and watercolor

Thursday, March 23, 2017

"Shopping Day" 6" X 6" Fluid Acrylic on Aquabord

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Result of "Windows" Color Theory Survey

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